{"id":439080,"date":"2018-02-12T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6fab17a2255787f15b6d1970cfc3e476"},"modified":"2018-02-12T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:24:16","slug":"first-high-precision-measurement-of-the-mass-of-the-w-boson-at-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=439080","title":{"rendered":"First high-precision measurement of the mass of the W boson at the LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 the W mass, which is consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the theory that describes known particles and their interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &ndash; one of the forces that govern the behaviour of matter in our universe. The reported result gives a value of 80370&plusmn;19 MeV for the W mass, which is consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the theory that describes known particles and their interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439081,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439080\/revisions\/439081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}