Scientists have seen a grouping of two W bosons carrying opposite electric charge, plus one gamma photon in data collected at Large Hadron Collider Though such 'triplet' particles had been theorised, ...

These mysterious objects, known as boson stars, are unlike anything we’ve encountered before. Neither composed of ordinary matter nor behaving like black holes, they exist in the theoretical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson ...

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 ...