How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass

PBS Space Time · Oct 28, 2026 · 21m

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Fermilab physicists really care about the mass of the W boson. They spent nearly a decade recording collisions in the Tevatron collider and another decade analysing the data. This culminated in the April 7 announcement that this obscure particle’s mass seems to be heavier than expected. So why do…