W BOSON: IS ABOUT TO BREAK PHYSICS?
May 11, 2022
3 minutes
by PROF JON BUTTERWORTH
A new measurement from an old experiment may have just given us a huge clue to some big unanswered questions in physics.
The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), a particle accelerator experiment which operated until 2011, recently caused a stir by re-measuring the mass of a particle known as the ‘W boson’.
Each of the four fundamental forces (the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism and gravity) has associated particles which ‘carry’
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