News tagged with electroweak interactions


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

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

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 16

(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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Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Dying, for stars, has just gotten more complicated. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what a group of physicists is calling an electroweak star.


Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

Physics / General Physics

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

(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 ...


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

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

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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Discovery prospects at the Large Hadron Collider

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

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 ...


Atlas Particle Detector

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

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

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.


Two brain structures key to emotional balance especially in threatening situations

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations. This region appears to work in ...


Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland ...


Large Hadron Collide

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

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

(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 ...


In the war between the sexes, the one with the closest fungal relationship wins

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The war between the sexes has been fought on many fronts throughout time -- from humans to birds to insects, the animal kingdom is replete with species involved in their own skirmishes. A recent study by Dr. Sarah Eppley ...


Singapore scientists describe novel method for 3-D whole genome mapping research

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this week's Nature, Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) scientists report a technological advance in the study of gene expression and regulation in the genome's three-dimensional folding and looping state through the de ...



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