Rival Labs Race to Measure Elusive `Z' Particle;Two Competing Teams Claim Gains in Effort to Demystify Basic Forces of Nature

The Washington Post | July 28, 1989| | Copyright

Scientific teams at two dueling laboratories both claimed last week to have obtained the most precise measurements ever made of the elusive Z particle, the subatomic quarry that is being pursued by physicists racing to understand the basic forces in nature.

The Z particle is created in multimillion-dollar particle colliders that smash together pieces of atoms traveling at nearly the speed of light. In the explosion of the collision, the Z particle is born, but its lifetime is less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. Learning the exact mass of the Z particle, and knowing exactly ...

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