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<p class="lead">You discovered the W and Z bosons.</p>
<p class="lead">You discovered the W and Z bosons!</p>
<h5><b>The weak force</b></h5>
<img class="img-responsive" src="assets/info/antihydrogen.png" alt="A plot from one of the original publications" align="center">
<img class="img-responsive" src="../assets/info/w.png" alt="A W&minus; boson produced in the transformation of a neutron into a proton" align="center">
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More information will come soon...
The weak interaction is a nuclear process that is responsible, among other things, for &beta; (beta) decay the transformation of neutrons into protons. The weak force is mediated by two bosons called the W and the Z. The W comes in two types: W<sup>+</sup> and W</sup>&minus;</sup>. The Z is neutral and is sometimes represented as Z<sup>0</sup>.
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<h5><b>Discovery of the W and Z bosons</b></h5>
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The W and Z bosons are quite massive and so require powerful accelerators in order to be produced and studied. The Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN was the first machine capable of this, and the UA1 collaboration lead by Carlo Rubbia discovered both particles in 1983. Rubbia along with Simon Van der Meer, whose developments on the accelerator allowed such a machine to be built, were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984.
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<h5><b>Resources</b></h5>
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<li><a href="http://cds.cern.ch/record/854078/" target="_blank">CERN Press Release announcing the discovery of the W boson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_interaction" target="_blank">The weak interaction on Wikipedia</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons" target="_blank">The W and Z bosons on Wikipedia</a></li>
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