Friday, May 27, 2022

What’s up with the W boson mass?

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However, the article uses the acronym CDF about without ever explaining it. You Google for it and the first search result is a web page from the Fermilab Tevatron website titled "Energy Frontier CDF" with no resolution what these three letters stand for. The second and third search results featuring Wikipedia and a webpage from CERN finally explain that CDF stands for Collider Detector at Fermilab.

As this article painfully describes the measurement of the W boson are probably are as exact as humanly possible given the current technology, but what about the theory?

What’s up with the W boson mass? | symmetry magazine

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