New Results From the CMS Experiment Put W Boson Mass Mystery to Rest

Credit: Photo: Brice, Maximilien: CERN

The Compact Muon Solenoid detector is located 100 meters underground on the Franco-Swiss borderer at CERN and collects data from the Large Hadron Collider. The detector has been operational since 2010 and is used by one of largest international scientific collaborations in history to study the fundamental laws of nature.

« New Results From the CMS Experiment Put W Boson Mass Mystery to Rest

Credit: Image based on a figure produced by the CMS collaboration. Created by Samantha Koch, Fermilab

Comparison measurements of the W boson’s mass with other experiments and the Standard Model prediction. The dot is the measured value and length of the line corresponds to the precision; the shorter the line, the more precise the measurement.

« New Results From the CMS Experiment Put W Boson Mass Mystery to Rest

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