When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The mass of the W boson particle has been found by the Large Hadron Collider to be exactly what ...

Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics community for decades. Following up on an unexpected measurement by the ...

It’s often said in science that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Recent measurements of the mass of the elementary particle known as the W boson provide a useful case study as to ...

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 ...

In an underground tunnel at Fermilab near Chicago, scientists fired beams of protons and antiprotons around the four-mile Tevatron accelerator ring until they collided in the center of the 5,000-ton ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The giant Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC. The different rings of detectors, arranged ...