2023/07/06 by C.-E. Wulz, Wulz, Claudia-Elisabeth
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.02921
openalex publication_date 2023/07/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The fascinating story of a major discovery at CERN is outlined. The bold decision to convert its most powerful, and only recently inaugurated, proton accelerator to a proton-antiproton collider led to the discovery of the W and Z bosons -- mediators of the weak interaction -- in a record time, at the experiments UA1 and UA2. The decisive roles of Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, who received the 1984 Nobel Prize for physics, are underlined.