Virtual Issue on The Recent CDF II Data on W Boson Mass and Possible Explanations
Guest Editors: Fei Wang (Zhengzhou University, China) and Lei Wu (Nanjing Normal University, China)
The Standard Model of particle physics had already been corroborated by various contemporary collider experiments. However, it still has difficulties in explaining some experimental results, such as the recent data on W boson mass, which may indicate the existence of new physics beyond the standard model. The new reported measurement of the W boson mass by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider gives MW = 80,433.5 ± 6.4(stat) ± 6.9(syst) = 80,433.5 ± 9.4 MeV/c2, using data corresponding to 8.8 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy. This measurement is in significant tension with the standard model expectation. Precision measurements of the W boson mass can not only test the standard model but also act as a probe of the new physics beyond the standard model. If such a value of the new W boson mass can persist and get confirmed by other experiments, it will indicate the existence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Therefore, we would like to guest editor a special issue on such a topic.
In this virtual issue, we would like to focus on possible explanations of the recent CDF II W boson mass measurement, especially its possible connections to the new physics beyond the standard model. It is fairly interesting to see which types of new physics will be preferred by such a new W boson mass data.
About the Editors
Fei Wang is a theoretical physicist and a distinguished professor based in Henan province. Holding a BSc from Zhengzhou University and a MSc & PhD from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Fei Wang has held postdoctoral researcher positions in physics research at Tsinghua University, Monash University, and a distinguished professor at Zhengzhou University since 2012. Specializing in physics beyond the Standard Model, his research delves into GUTs in four and higher dimensions, model building and phenomenology in SUSY, dark matter and baryogenesis, etc. Fei Wang's scholarly contributions include over 70 papers, with more than 15,000 citations. Notably, two of his papers earned places among the "Top 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in China" in 2016 and 2017, while another received the prestigious "2020 China Highly Cited Paper Award" from the IOP Publishing. He received the "Excellence Award" of the President's Scholarship from the CAS and leads an innovative research team in Henan Province since 2018. Personal webpage. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7379-2975
Lei Wu is a professor and vice dean of the School of Physical Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University. He obtained PhD from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, Australia from 2013 to 2017. He is mainly engaged in new physics research beyond the Standard Model, and has published more than 90 papers in academic journals such as Nat. Commun., PRL, etc., which have been cited more than 4000 times with an H-index 40. The research results have been repeatedly cited and positively evaluated by PDG, ATLAS, CMS, CDF, D0, DarkSide, PandaX, etc. and Nobel Laureate Adam G. Riess. His current research interests focus on dark matter theory and detection, new physics and accurate testing of TeV. Personal webpage. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5010-7517
Published Papers
The physics case for a neutrino lepton collider in light of the CDF W mass measurement
Tianyi Yang, Sitian Qian, Sen Deng, Jie Xiao, Leyun Gao, Andrew Michael Levin, Qiang Li, Meng Lu, and Zhengyun You
Constraints from new CDF II W-boson mass on top–bottom seesaw and the top flavor models
Guo-Li Liu
W-boson mass, dark matter and muon (g-2) in the μNMSSM
Zhaoxia Heng, Xingjuan Li, and Liangliang Shang
W-boson mass anomaly and vacuum structure in vector dark matter model with a singlet scalar mediator
Seyed Yaser Ayazi and Mojtaba Hosseini
W boson mass in singlet-triplet scotogenic dark matter model
Aditya Batra, K. A. ShivaSankar, Sanjoy Mandal, and Rahul Srivastava
Falsifiable analog model predictions of W mass in CDF II and ATLAS
R. N. C. Pfeifer
Beyond oblique contributions: Δr and W-mass in models with scalar leptoquarks
Carlo Marzo
Gauge Bosons Masses in the context of the Supersymmetric SU(3)C⊗SU(3)L⊗U(1)N model
M. C. Rodriguez