UA2

The UA2 detector on the Super Proton Synchrotron scrutinized proton-antiproton collisions for traces of W and Z particles.

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Symposium: Celebrating electroweak milestones | 31 October

CERN Science Gateway will host its first scientific event to celebrate 50 years since Gargamelle discovered neutral currents and 40 years since UA1 and UA2 discovered the W and Z bosons

Announcement
Physics
10 October, 2023
Physics
Announcement
10 October, 2023

W boson turns 40

Forty years ago today, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they had discovered the electrically charged carrier of the weak force, one of nature’s four fundamental forces

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Physics
25 January, 2023
Physics
News
25 January, 2023

Higgs10: Three-quarters of the way there

The direct discovery of the W and Z bosons at the SppS in 1983 provided solid experimental support for the existence of the Higgs boson

Feature
Physics
25 May, 2022
Physics
Feature
25 May, 2022

W boson published 30 years ago

On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson

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Experiments
25 February, 2013
Experiments
News
25 February, 2013

UA2

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Experiments