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World's best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as firemen use different methods to narrow the location of a person trapped in a building, scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the theorized Higgs particle: direct ...

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created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...

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Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

New measurements of W boson mass point to Higgs mass and test Standard Model

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ...

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created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (79) | comments 9 feature

Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC ...

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created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (54) | comments 44

UW scientists join hunt for 'God' particle to complete 'theory of everything'

When the world's most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of University of Washington scientists.

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created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 5

Particle X in rare decay could belong to a new physics model

A particle that may mediate the rare decay of a Sigma-plus hyperon appears to have close affiliations with a light Higgs boson found in one supersymmetric model—an interpretation suggesting unambiguous evidence for physics ...

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created Mar 07, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (99) | comments 0 feature

Discovery prospects at the Large Hadron Collider

Will scientists ever find the elusive Higgs particle, the last of the fundamental particles predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics and postulated to play a major role in how fundamental particles ...

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created Apr 24, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 0

What is the lifetime of positronium ions?

The positronium ion is the most simply built negative ion imaginable, made of just two electrons and a positron. This exotic combination is unstable: after just a few fractions of a billionth of a second it ...

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created Feb 22, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" jointly to David J. Gross Kavli Institute for Theo ...

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created Oct 05, 2004 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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