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The Australian physicist on the small victories that make lab work fulfilling, how she found forgotten female scientists to include in her first book, and why research is an investment
The W boson, one of the elementary particles of the Standard Model, has been determined to be more massive than first predicted.
What just happened with the W boson? And wait, what is a W boson?
Scientists have made new findings regarding the W boson, a fundamental particle, in a new research published in the Science journal. The study shows that it has a significantly greater mass than previously theorised in the Standard Model of particle physics. During the research, more than 400 scientists scrutinised four million W boson candidates out of a "dataset of around 450 trillion collisions" for over over 10 years.
New measurements of a subatomic particle provide the strongest hint yet that the leading theory of quantum physics that explains our universe is missing a fundamental element, scientists say.