Photon Collisions Produce Pairs of Weak-Force Carriers

Physicists from the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed production of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, from photons colliding with photons

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This new result confirms one of the main predictions of electroweak theory — that force carriers can interact with themselves — and provides new ways to probe it. Saiba mais...


Imagem: ATLAS Collaboration/ CERN

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