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Scientists have long suspected that top quarks are routinely produced by the powerful collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. So far, however, a thicket of more ordinary particles has concealed them from view. But the top may not elude discovery much longer. In late October, researchers at Fermilab's Collider Detector found a provocative set of tracks hinting that a top may have briefly materialized, then vanished like a Halloween ghost. The tantalizing event was reported at a conference held at the facility in mid-November. Since then, physicists have talked of little else...
John E. Huth, a high energy particle physicist at the Fermi Institute in Batavia, Ill., last week accepted a tenure offer from the Physics Department...
Since 1990, he has been associate department head of the Collider Detector at Fermi, where he has worked since...
Huth said he could not bring his work at Fermi to a close for "at least two years" and that he will travel between Cambridge and Batavia for his first year here...
Huth and Franklin have collaborated on a number of projects involving the Collider Detector at Fermi. They met in 1981 while working as graduate students at the Stanford Linear Accelerator...