When, in the early eighties, the Super Proton Synchrotron ( SPS ) at CERN discovered the W boson and the Z boson, it was again felt that the discovery of the top was imminent.
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New physics in charged current events would be swamped by more numerous W boson interactions; new physics in the neutral current would not be masked by a large effect due to ordinary Standard Model physics.
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However, the decays of W bosons into quarks are difficult to distinguish from the background, and the decays into leptons cannot be fully reconstructed ( because neutrinos are impossible to detect in particle collision experiments ).
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W bosons of weak isospin from SU ( 2 ) ( W 1, W 2, and W 3 ), and the B boson of weak hypercharge from U ( 1 ), respectively, all of which are massless.
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The first such machine that became available was the Super Proton Synchrotron, where unambiguous signals of W bosons were seen in January 1983 during a series of experiments made possible by Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer.
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What about using the w boson to catalyze a fission reaction via beta decay ? convert a neutron to a proton which then makes the atom unstable ?-- talk ) 18 : 09, 18 January 2010 ( UTC)
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The observations began with the study of the already-rare production of W bosons plus photons ( ); then Z bosons plus photons ( ); then observation of W pairs ( ); then a mix of W and Z boson ( ).
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The most likely possibility is for the Higgs to decay into a pair of W bosons ( the light blue line in the plot ), which happens about 23.1 % of the time for a Higgs boson with a mass of.
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In 2012, he analysed 1 million W boson events to measure its mass to an accuracy of 0.02 %, the world's most precise measurement, which in turn allowed him to predict the mass of the Higgs boson prior to its discovery in 2012.
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Due to the large masses of the W bosons, particle transformations or decays ( e . g ., flavour change ) that depend on the weak interaction typically occur much more slowly than transformations or decays that depend only on the strong or electromagnetic forces.
