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Homework Statement
Consider a proton and antiproton collision. The goal is to produce a top quark and anti-top quark pair.
A top quark has a mass of 174 GeV/c2
How much energy is required in the center of mass frame to produce the combination?
The Attempt at a Solution
I'm somewhat utterly stumped. Obviously, the problem deals with a collision (I'd assume inelastic since the pair derived from the collision is a single mass?) in which relativistic principles need to be taken into consideration.
So, my feeble initial attempt is to find the initial versus final mass, wherein:
Minitial=2(proton mass)
Mfinal=2(top-quark mass)
And then compensate for the increase in energy by finding the kinetic energy of the colliding protons. But again, this is little more than a guess.
THANKS FOR THE HELP!