Elementary Particle's Unexpected Heft Stuns Physicists

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April 07, 2022

Particle Physics Elementary Particle's Unexpected Heft Stuns Physicists A new analysis by the CDF collaboration is a bolt from the blue, finding that the W boson is significantly heavier than suggested by previous measurements and theoretical prediction By Daniel Garisto

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World's Largest Particle Collider Muons and electrons might not experience the same fundamental interactions, contrary to Standard Model predictions By Daniel Garisto | March 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Nobody was waiting for this discrepancy...It's very unexpected. You almost feel betrayed because suddenly they're sawing off one of the legs that really support the whole structure of particle physics." Martijn Mulders, experimental physicist at CERN

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