CERN measurement casts doubt on shocking W boson result

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A 2022 measurement of the wide of the W boson threatened to upend particle physics arsenic we cognize it, but caller results from CERN bespeak the modular exemplary was close each along

By Leah Crane

The ATLAS detector astatine  the LHC

The ATLAS detector astatine the Large Hadron Collider

The ATLAS Collaboration

A tantalising discrepancy from the modular exemplary of particle physics hasn’t persisted successful caller results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While the erstwhile effect created a frenzy of hypotheses astir caller particles and adjustments to the modular exemplary that could relationship for the discrepancy, determination is increasing grounds that it was not rather correct.

In 2022, researchers analysing archival information from the now-shuttered Tevatron collider successful Illinois recovered that a cardinal particle called the W boson seemed to beryllium …

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