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Name: Taher
Status: other
Age: 40s
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Date: 4/9/2003
Question:
What is the best estimated mass of top quarks?

Replies:
Mass m = 174.3 +/- 5.1 GeV (direct observations of top events)

Mass m = 168.2 (+9.6 or -7.4) GeV (Standard Model electroweak fit)

Charge = 2/3 e

As of July 2002

---Nathan A. Unterman


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