Large Electron–Positron Collider

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Large Electron–Positron Collider

Particle accelerator at CERN, Switzerland

The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed. It was built at CERN, a multi-national centre for research in nuclear and particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland.

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1983The Z and W bosons are discovered at an earlier CERN collider, the Proton-Antiproton Collider.
August 1989The LEP collider begins operation, accelerating electrons and positrons to produce the Z boson.