polarisation

Polarised bosons: a window into the Higgs mechanism

In new results presented at a CERN seminar, the ATLAS Collaboration reported the first observation of ZZ events containing two longitudinally polarised Z bosons, together with evidence for longitudinally polarised Z bosons in electroweak WZ production accompanied by two particle jets – a process that is particularly sensitive to boson scattering.

4 August 2026

ATLAS probes the Higgs mechanism in the scattering of W boson

The ATLAS Collaboration reported the first evidence – with 3.3σ significance – of vector boson scattering involving longitudinally polarised, same-sign W bosons

4 April 2025

ATLAS measures joint polarisation of W and Z bosons

In a new result presented at the ICHEP 2022 conference, ATLAS physicists have been able to observe events with both a W and Z boson simultaneously polarised longitudinally for the very first time.

7 July 2022

ATLAS measures the polarisation of top quarks and antiquarks

In a new result presented by the ATLAS Collaboration, physicists have measured – for the first time – the full polarisation vectors for both top quarks and antiquarks.

8 June 2021