Single top quark found

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Lab have found the first evidence of single top quarks, which is exciting news as it confirms predictions made by particle theory. It's hoped that these techniques will be able to search for the Higgs boson. Up to now, scientists had only observed the top quark in subatomic processes involved the strong nuclear force, which produces pairs of top and antitop quarks, but Fermilab's Tevatron cranked to a million billion proton-antiproton collisions which resulted in this rare process involving the weak nuclear force.

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