Professor Amidei is currently conducting experimental particle physics in the CDF collaboration at Fermilab. The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) is a large general purpose device for studying proton-anti-proton collisions at 2 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. These are the highest energy collisions achieved in the laboratory to date, and probe the structure of matter at distances of 10-17 cm.

In a prior engagement with the Tevatron, the University of Michigan group played a key role in CDF?fs discovery of the top quark. Since then the accelerator and detector have been upgraded to run at 20 times the previous intensity, with U-M contributing much of CDF?fs new electronic trigger apparatus. The large increase in the data set will enable a full survey of the properties of the top quark, and may reveal the elusive Higgs boson or other new forms of physics at small distance scales.

Measurement of the Top Quark Production Cross Section in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, (The CDF Collaboration), submitted to Physical Review D Fall 2004.

Measurement of the Helicity of W Bosons in Top Quark Decays, (T. Affolder et al., The CDF Collaboration), Physical Review Letters 84, 216 (2000).

Observation of Hadronic W Decays in p-pbar Events with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, (F. Abe et al., The CDF Collaboration), Physical Review Letters 80, 5720 (1998).

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass, (F. Abe et al., The CDF Collaboration), Physical Review Letters 80, 2767 (1998).

Future Electro Weak Physics at the Fermilab Tevatron: Report of the Tev-2000 Study Group, (D. Amidei and R. Brock Eds.), www-theory.fnal.gov/TeV2000.html, Fermilab-Pub-96/082 (1996).

The CDF II Detector Technical Design Report, (D. Amidei, Ed., The CDF Collaboration), www-cdf.fnal.gov/upgrades/tdr/tdr.html, Fermilab-Pub-96/390-E (1996).

Observation of Top Quark Production in p-pbar Collisions with the CDF Detector at Fermilab, (F. Abe et al., The CDF Collaboration), Physical Review Letters 74, 2626 (1995).