LHC: World’s largest atom smasher cracks decades-old W Boson mass mystery
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have made a precise new measurement of the W boson's mass, confirming its alignment with the Standard Model of particle physics. The breakthrough resolves a previous discrepancy, utilizing 300 million collision events and 4 billion simulations to achieve a precision of 0.01%, equivalent to measuring a pencil within 0.0004 inches.
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