{"id":75944,"date":"2018-02-12T20:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/first-high-precision-measurement-of-the-mass-of-the-w-boson-at-the-lhc"},"modified":"2018-02-12T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:43:12","slug":"first-high-precision-measurement-of-the-mass-of-the-w-boson-at-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/first-high-precision-measurement-of-the-mass-of-the-w-boson-at-the-lhc","title":{"rendered":"First high-precision measurement of the mass of the W boson at the LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-high-precision-measurement-of-the-mass-of-the-w-boson-at-the-lhc2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Display of a candidate event for a W boson decaying into one muon and one neutrino from proton-proton collisions recorded by ATLAS with LHC stable beams at a collision energy of 7 TeV. (Image: CERN In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the mass of the W boson. This is one of two elementary particles that mediate the weak interaction \u2013 one of the forces that govern the behaviour of matter in our universe. The reported result gives a value of 80370\u00b119 MeV for th\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEIF5VvwbaA4ITnk0TvWlAp4qFwgEKg8IACoHCAowpbDpAzCm_hwwj9kp\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEIF5VvwbaA4ITnk0Tv...Cm_hwwj9kp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Display of a candidate event for a W boson decaying into one muon and one neutrino from proton-proton collisions recorded by ATLAS with LHC stable beams at a collision energy of 7 TeV. (Image: CERN In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}