Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by beezle on Saturday April 30, 2022 @10:49AM (#31216479)

There are a lot of other areas of physics, some even involving the use of colliders, that are in better position and value to make discoveries that either advance our understanding and/or have applied/commercial application.

One example is the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven. The money spent nationally and globally on these types of facilities are a fraction of what goes to LHC or, not long ago, the Tevatron at Fermilab.

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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by photochemsyn on Saturday April 30, 2022 @11:13AM (#31216647)

Yes, those kind of projects have a lot more uses and deserve more funding and attention. Stanford's Linac Coherent Light Source is another example:

> "The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC takes X-ray snapshots of atoms and molecules at work, revealing fundamental processes in materials, technology and living things."

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Re:Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”? by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday May 01, 2022 @07:17AM (#31224043)

Moin.

> "The European XFEL is a research facility of superlatives: It generates ultrashort X-ray flashes—27 000 times per second and with a brilliance that is a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray radiation sources."

[bzzt bzzt bzzt] https://www.xfel.eu/facility/overview/index_eng.html

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