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Higher W boson mass hints at chinks in Standard Model’s armor

Enlarge / Illustration of a candidate event for a W boson decaying into one muon and one neutrino from proton-proton collisions, recorded by the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector in 2018. (credit: ATLAS Collaboration/CERN) The Standard Model of Particle Physics has withstood rigorous test after test over many decades, and the discovery of the Higgs […]