Very excited about @Fermilab seminar tomorrow!

It will present a new measurement of the W boson mass to be published soon, no #openscience article yet.

There are already articles appearing, but in this thread, I try to explain why this is important with one (famous) plot Why? Because the W boson is really important for the standard model, particularly for checking its consistency. I'm really excited!

The hype for this experiment is slowly rising, as new results are expected to be presented at a Fermilab colloquium later this week. Now, why is this #gminus2 experiment so interesting and gets even jaded particle physicists like me excited? A thread:

https://twitter.com/Fermilab/status/1378765826929651716

While the standard model is awesome and can predict a huge number of different behaviours of the tiny particles that we are all built from, it is considered an effective theory, meaning physicists eventually expect it to stop working (pic: @symmetrymag )

This is an extremely important paper, I will explain why in the thread below

https://twitter.com/DrAlexKesh/status/1270881862961987585

As you probably are aware, the "standard model" physics theory used to describe elementary particles inside atoms is really good at describing things. It is also clear that it is what physicists call an effective theory, meaning it will not work at all energies