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The mass spectrum of the elementary particles which we know today (Fig. 1) sets the scale of our future explorations. It is dominated in the boson sector by the W—Z triplet, m w = 80.2 ± 0.2 GeV and m z = 91.189 ± 0.004 GeV, and in the fermion sector by the top quark, m t = 174 ± 16 GeV. The two other mass scales which we know of, the grand unification and Planck scales, are many orders of magnitude higher and exclude direct exploration using accelerator experiments.
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Darriulat, P. (1995). Accelerator Experiments for the Next Century. In: Lévy, M., Iliopoulos, J., Gastmans, R., Gérard, JM. (eds) Frontiers in Particle Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 350. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1082-0_16
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