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Also Known As W-meson • W boson

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A Feynman diagram showing two protons colliding, with their quarks interacting to produce W bosons that combine into a Higgs boson, which then decays into two Z bosons and further into electron and muon pairs.
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Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist