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The Z° boson has changed in the last year from being an exotic rarity to being the tool for a wide range of research. CERN's large electron-positron collider, LEP, produces enough Z° particles to allow many predictions of particle physics theory and cosmology to be tested.
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Miller, D. Particle physics after a year of LEP. Nature 349, 379–387 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/349379a0
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