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UA1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (137 words) |
 | UA1 experiment on display at the Microcosm museum at CERN |
| The UA1 high energy physics experiment ran at CERN from 1981 until 1993 on the SPS collider. |
| The discovery of the W and Z bosons by this experiment and UA2 in 1982 led to the Nobel Prize for physics being awarded to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer in 1984. |
| Veikko Karimäki in UA1 (160 words) |
| At CERN 1979-1982 In Helsinki 1982-1989 Main activity was: Event reconstruction and analysis in the UA1 central tracking detector. |
| The UA1 experiment (1978-1989) was proposed in order to discover the intermediate vector bosons W and Z which are the mediators of the weak force. |
| UA1 also made also the discovery of the Z particle in May 1984. |
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