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High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 376:6589 (2022) 170-176

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T Aaltonen, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, Ja Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, Ve Barnes, Ba Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, Kr Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, Hs Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, P Butti, A Buzatu, A Calamba, S Camarda

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The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last missing component of the model. After observation of the Higgs boson, a measurement of the W boson mass provides a stringent test of the model. We measure the W boson mass, MW, using data corresponding to 8.8 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a 1.96 tera-electron volt center-of-mass energy with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. A sample of approximately 4 million W boson candidates is used to obtain [Formula: see text], the precision of which exceeds that of all previous measurements combined (stat, statistical uncertainty; syst, systematic uncertainty; MeV, mega-electron volts; c, speed of light in a vacuum). This measurement is in significant tension with the standard model expectation.
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Serendipitous discovery of radio flaring behaviour from a nearby M dwarf with MeerKAT

(2022)

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Alex Andersson, Rob Fender, Chris Lintott, David Williams, Laura Driessen, Patrick Woudt, Alexander van der Horst, David Buckley, Sara Motta, Lauren Rhodes, Nora Eisner, Rachel Osten, Paul Vreeswijk, Steven Bloemen, Paul Groot
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MIGHTEE-HI: The relation between the HI gas in galaxies and the cosmic web

(2022)

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Madalina N Tudorache, MJ Jarvis, I Heywood, AA Ponomareva, N Maddox, BS Frank, NJ Adams, RAA Bowler, IH Whittam, M Baes, H Pan, SHA Rajohnson, F Sinigaglia, K Spekkens
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Long term radio monitoring of the neutron star X-ray binary Swift J1858.6-0814

(2022)

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L Rhodes, RP Fender, SE Motta, J van den Eijnden, DRA Williams, JS Bright, GR Sivakoff
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Gems of the Galaxy Zoos—A Wide-ranging Hubble Space Telescope Gap-filler Program* *This research is based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These observations are associated with program 15445.

The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 163:4 (2022) 150

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William C Keel, Jean Tate, O Ivy Wong, Julie K Banfield, Chris J Lintott, Karen L Masters, Brooke D Simmons, Claudia Scarlata, Carolin Cardamone, Rebecca Smethurst, Lucy Fortson, Jesse Shanahan, Sandor Kruk, Izzy L Garland, Colin Hancock, David O’Ryan
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