In Yesterday's issue of the journal Science physicist report they have measured the mass of the W-Boson, a mediator of the week nuclear force, to within 0.01%, by far the most accurate ever made, and they found it differed from the theoretical prediction the standard model says it should have by 7 standard deviations, only 5 are needed to claim a discovery. If the experimentalists have not made some systematic error in their measurements, and currently there's no evidence they have, then this is wonderful , the first hint of physics beyond the standard model.
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk1781> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> whb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv39%3DsbbwjOXP4i-2DN9fjOCK8kPXsoFUbmS1Si1HxjHYQ%40mail.gmail.com.