Experimental HEP Seminar

Recent Results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)

Andreas Warburton

McGill University

The Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois is providing symmetric collisions of protons on antiprotons at a centre-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, making it the highest energy particle accelerator currently in operation. The upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II) is one of two multipurpose detectors examining the outcomes of these high-energy hadronic collisions. The CDF collaboration has been pursuing a broad and exciting physics program while acquiring physics quality data over the past five years. The talk will treat key performance aspects of the upgraded collider and CDF II detector and present recent results obtained by the CDF collaboration, with emphasis on areas having Canadian contributions and relevant to the imminent physics program at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.