The ATLAS Collaboration has confirmed with top quark events that the coupling of charged leptons to the weak interaction is universal — showcasing the feasibility of performing high-precision electroweak measurements at proton–proton colliders.
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Canelli, F., Kilminster, B. A top job for high-precision studies. Nat. Phys. 17, 760–761 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01249-5
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