The W-boson, an electrically charged carrier of the weak force, plays a crucial role in understanding particle physics. In a recent study, the ATLAS collaboration— an international team of ...

For nearly 30 years, the Duke physicist has led a worldwide effort to hone in on the mass of a fundamental particle called the W boson. It’s the force-carrying particle that allows the sun to burn and ...

The W-boson width had previously been measured at CERN's Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider and Fermilab's Tevatron collider, yielding an average value of 2085 ± 42 million electronvolts ...

One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get to the bottom of it. For nearly 30 years, the Duke physicist has led a worldwide ...

in search of a rare process in which a Z boson is produced alongside two other weak-force carriers, or vector (V) bosons, as the W and Z are known. "The production of three vector bosons is a very ...

Bosons are the 'force carrying' or 'force-mediating' particles. If a fermion, such as a quark or lepton produces a boson, which is then taken in by another fermion, then a force exists between the ...