Recent results on top quark physics with the D0 experiment in {anti p}p collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV for an integrated luminosity of 125 pb−1 are reported. The direct measurement of the top quark mass uses single lepton events, giving the result m{sub top} = 173.3 ± 5.6(stat) ± 6.2(syst) GeV=c2. The measurement of the t{anti t} production cross section includes analyses from 8 top decay channels: dilepton (t{anti t} → e[mu], ee, and [mu][mu]), electron and neutrino (t{anti t} → e[nu]), and single leptons (t{anti t} → e + jets and t{anti t} → [mu] + jets) with and without b tagging. We measure the t{anti t} production cross section to be 5.5 ± 1.8 pb at m{sub top} = 173.3 GeV/c2.

The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: the first evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result.At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities.

This is a brief summary of D0's top quark measurements, including [sigma][sub t[bar t]] and m[sub t] in the [ell] + jets and dilepton channels, [sigma][sub t[bar t]] in the all jets channel, and the search for top disappearance via t [yields] bH[sup +], H[sup +] [yields] [tau][nu] or c[bar s].

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