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Article: CENTER FIRST TO PRODUCE Z PARTICLE.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1989
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Byline: New York Times
In the first successful test of a new type of atom smasher, American physicists have produced the elusive Z particle, an elementary particle considered to be a key to understanding the fundamental forces of nature.
The Americans thus won the first lap in a race with their European counterparts to create the particle in bulk for further research.
Officials of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto. Calif., announced the achievement Wednesday. They said that "unmistakeable fragments of a massive Z" particle were detected in an analysis of data from high- energy collisions generated by the accelerator on ...