Lets understand discovery of mass of W- boson! Vidnyan Bharati organises open lecture of Prof Ashutosh Kotwal
The Vidnyan Bharati has organised an open lecture by Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal, who, with the help of his team of 400 scientists, discovered the mass of W- boson. This public oration event is co-organized by Deccan Education, Ferguson College Autonomous, and the Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats forum.
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The science-loving fraternity, faculty, and students of physics should set a reminder, as Vidnyan Bharati, is giving an opportunity to understand the discovery of a mass of W- boson.
The Vidnyan Bharati has organised an open lecture by Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal, who, with the help of his team of 400 scientists, discovered the mass of W- boson. This public oration event is co-organized by Deccan Education, Ferguson College Autonomous, and the Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats forum.
The event- The Higgs is Not Enough Verdict from the Heavyweight W Boson-is going to take place on Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 6.00 pm. The event will be live-streamed on the Youtube channel .(https://www.youtube.com/c/VibhaPune)
During the lecture he will discuss the Standard Model, the crucial role of the W-boson and how it has become the harbinger of new laws of nature.
For unreserved, W bosons mediate the weak interaction, one of the fundamental forces in physics. It should be noted that Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal and his team of 400 scientists had been working at Fermi Labs in the USA and CERN in Switzerland to accurately determine the mass of the W-boson. After 10 years of hard work, Prof Kotwal finally measured the mass of W-boson with an accuracy of 0.02%.
During the lecture he will discuss the Standard Model, the crucial role of the W/ boson and how it has become the harbinger of new laws of nature.
The Standard Model has been a crowning achievement of fundamental physics,culminating in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. As the theory of the buildingblocks of matter and forces at the quantum level, it has been the most successful theory in all of science - until the recent measurement of the W boson mass, which clearly disagrees with the Standard Model.
This is reminiscent of a similar disagreement observed with classical physics a century ago - the observation of the atomic nucleus by Rutherford - which paved the way for the emergence of quantum mechanics and defined modern physics. Therefore, this upset to the Standard Model may well point towards exciting new discoveries in particle physics for years to come. The discovery was a breakthrough in the science industry.