CDF Snapshot
Many (not all) of CDF’s experimenters gathered in front of Wilson Hall in 1994.
525: Number of physicists in the CDF collaboration (give or take).
54: Number of institutions represented in the CDF collaboration.
11: Number of countries represented in the CDF collaboration.
29: Number of U.S. institutions and universities represented in the CDF collaboration.
1000: Estimated number of people participating in CDF Run II upgrade project.
800: Number of miles of cable installed in CDF upgrade for Run II.
38,808: Total number of cables identified in CDF cable database, including cables from Run I.
$110,000,000: Estimated cost of CDF Run II upgrade project.
46,000: Number of electronic data channels in CDF silicon system in Run I.
800,000: Number of electronic data channels in CDF silicon system in Run II.
6,000: Number of wires in CDF Central Tracking Chamber in Run I.
30,000: Number of wires in CDF CTC in Run II.
3.5: Time in microseconds between particle collisions at CDF in Run I (a microsecond is a millionth of a second).
.132: Design limit for time in microseconds between particle collisions at CDF in Run II; it will begin at .396 microseconds.
9/13/85: First observation of proton-antiproton collisions by CDF collider detector at 1.6 TeV center-of-mass energy.
1/5/93: Infamous headline, "315 Physicists Report Failure In Search for Supersymmetry" appears in The New York Times. The reference is a paper signed by 315 CDF collaborators in the Dec. 14, 1992 issue of Physical Review Letters.
43: Number of events identified (so far) at CDF as consistent with top quark production.
50,000,000: Number of events recorded on data tape that had to be sifted to produce those 43 top quark events.
1985: First graduate student thesis completed at CDF (G. Chiarelli; University of Pisa, Italy; March 1985; "Detection of Heavy Flavours and New Particles at the Tevatron Collider").
1: Number of graduate student theses at CDF in 1985.
179: Total number of graduate student theses at CDF, 1985-2000.
1988: First publication of physics results from CDF: "Transverse-momentum distributions of charged particles produced in p anti-p interactions at s**(1/2) = 630 and 1800 GeV," F. Abe et al., The CDF Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1819 (1988).
1: Number of publications of physics results from CDF in 1988.
24: Number of publications of CDF physics results in calendar year 2000 (up to September).
211: Number of publications of CDF physics results, 1988-2000.
3/3/95: Announcement of top quark discovery together with DZero collaboration.
2/5/99: Report of signs of matter-antimatter asymmetry in b decays at CDF.