Measurements of top quark properties at the Tevatron collider

Abstract

The discovery of the top quark in 1995 opened a whole new sector of investigation of the Standard Model; today top quark physics remains a key priority of the Tevatron program. Some of the measurements of top quark properties, for example its mass, will be a long-standing legacy. The recent evidence of an anomalously large charge asymmetry in top quark events suggests that new physics could couple preferably with top quarks. I will summarize this long chapter of particle physics history and discuss the road the top quark is highlighting for the LHC program.Comment: Presented at the 2011 Rencontres de Moriond EW, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 13-20 Mar 201