Simon van der Meer

Carrying the weak force: Thirty years of the W boson

25 Jan 2013 | Update - For the public | Cian O'Luanaigh | On 25 January 1983, CERN physicists announced to the world the discovery of the W boson, an elementary particle that carries the weak force

Stochastic cooling

25 Jan 2013 | Engineering page | Simon van der Meer invented the stochastic cooling technique at CERN to reduce the energy spread and angular divergence of beams of charged particles

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