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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by eightysixfour on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:19PM (#31022355)
According to the chart here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/higher-w-boson-mass-...

It seems to align with measurements from:

* D0 I

* CDF I

* OPAL

* ALEPH

I do not know what refinements happened between D0 1/2, or CDF 1/2.

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Re:Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is a... by rob_c on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:27PM (#31022408)
Potentially just a refinement in the strategy of the analysis and/or more compute/time. Not the first time a measurement like this was off due to poor blinding...
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