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28 March 1999

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In 1983 the big UA1 and UA2 experiments at CERN revealed the long-awaited W and Z particles, the carriers of the weak force. UA1, UA2 and much of CERN’s antiproton infrastructure are no more, but CERN’s Microcosm exhibition centre is preserving some of this historic hardware and transforming it into the focus of a new Hunting the Bosons exhibition.

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