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Weird Boson Measurement May Have Been a Fluke, Large Hadron Collider Data Suggests
A team of researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have measured the mass of the W boson and found it to be in line with the Standard Model of particle physics, the overarching theory that describes the four fundamental forces and the characteristics of the smallest units of matter.
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Physics Mystery Gets Even Deeper After Long-Awaited Muon Reveal
Inside a locked cabinet, an envelope held a number that was poised to rock the physics community, regardless of its contents. The value, a clock measurement deliberately hidden to keep physicists’ data analysis unbiased, would be used in a calculation that could either bring one of particle physics’ foremost mysteries to an end — or…
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Why I Went Birdwatching At A Particle Physics Lab
We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster—the second in a sequence of Fermilab’s particle accelerators—and then onto the 3km ring road that traces the tunnel that houses the Main Injector accelerator. Along the road are unfrozen ponds filled with water used for cooling research equipment, where Canada geese have taken up residence…
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Anyone Can Learn Particle Physics With This New Children’s Book
You might flee from words like “quarks”, “relativity” and “joule”, but you shouldn’t have to, and neither should a kid. A new children’s book from the folks at a few of America’s national labs will hopefully make the things particle physicists are talking about easier to digest.