Tag: W boson
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Past and Present of the LHC Physics Programme: A Viewpoint
Before the LHC began operations, expectations were immense. It was not perceived simply as CERN’s next machine after LEP, but as “the next machine after everything”—a collider expected to settle how electroweak symmetry is broken.
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In discussion with John Ellis: The Higgs, Patience and Perseverance in Science
In discussion with John Ellis: The Higgs, Patience and Perseverance in Science by Panos Charitos For John Ellis, the history of the Higgs boson is not a neat, short story that begins with a theory paper and ends with a discovery announcement. It is a long intellectual adventure, beginning in superconductivity, moving through the construction
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FASER opens new windows on dark sectors and TeV neutrino physics
FASER opens new windows on dark sectors and TeV neutrino physics The FASER experiment has presented a series of new results that highlight the growing breadth of its physics programme at the LHC. These include a search for dark photons with the main FASER detector, a first search for neutrino-induced charm production with FASERν, and
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New Staff Members and Fellows
New Staff Members and Fellows Maximilian Babeluk Hi, I’m Max. I recently joined the ALICE ITS3 team, where I work on sensor testing, functional verification, and in the future also chip design – particularly on MOSAIX. My main activities include testing and yield assessment across multiple integration levels (wafer probing to system tests), including data
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From top quarks to Higgs bosons: LHCb’s expanding jet programme
From top quarks to Higgs bosons: LHCb’s expanding jet programme Over the past decade, LHCb has steadily evolved from a detector primarily associated with heavy-flavour physics into a broader forward spectrometer able to address an increasingly diverse set of questions in Standard Model and beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Two recent papers illustrate that evolution particularly well. One
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What is the W boson mass trying to tell us?
What is the W boson mass trying to tell us? Introduction In April this year the CDF collaboration shocked the particle physics world with a new measurement of the mass of the W boson particle [1], with a precision better than all previous results combined, and a value of the W mass higher than the