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The Dzero Experiment at Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois is being upgraded to study the head-on collisions of beams of protons and antiprotons at a center-of-mass energy of 2 TeV. Goals of the experiment include study of the top quark and intermediate vector bosons and searches for a variety of new phenomena including Higgs bosons, supersymmetry and evidence for extra dimensions. Key to these studies are the measurement of particle momenta and the ability to trigger on particles of high transverse momentum. This is accomplished with a new central tracking system - and the Central Fiber Tracker (or CFT). At the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center, teachers have been working together with physicists and high school students from area schools to built several hundred fiber-optic waveguide bundles used to transmit scintillation signals to photosensors for over 75,000 channels. An overview of Dzero, details of our research program, and the significance of the high school teachers and students to the research program will be presented.
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