Z particle: Quick Facts

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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.

Computer-generated diagram showing particle tracks from a proton-antiproton collision at the center of the UA1 detector at CERN, with labeled paths for electron and positron.

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Topics

W particle intermediate vector boson

Key People

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Carlo Rubbia

Italian physicist

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Simon van der Meer

Dutch physicist