Another term for W particle.US particle physicists had never felt any real competition until the W boson was discovered at CERN in 1983....
And on page 29 Peter Renton explains how the latest results on the W boson from CERN and FermiLab in the US are pushing the Standard Model to the limit.
It was 20 years ago this month that particle physicists caught their first glimpse of the W boson.