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[[File:UA2 Detector.jpg|thumb|262px|The UA2 detector shown in open position at the CERN Proton-Antiproton Collider in 1982]]{{Short description|Particle physics experiment at CERN}}The '''Underground Area 2''' (UA2) experiment was a [[high-energy physics]] experiment at the [[Proton-Antiproton Collider]] ('''Sp{{overline|p}}S''') — a modification of the [[Super Proton Synchrotron]] ('''SPS''') — at [[CERN]]. The experiment ran from 1981 until 1990,<ref name="UA2CERN">{{cite web |title=UA2 |url= https://home.cern/about/experiments/ua2 |publisher=CERN |access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref> and its main objective was to discover the [[W and Z bosons]]. UA2, together with the [[UA1 experiment]], succeeded in discovering these particles in 1983, leading to the 1984 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] being awarded to [[Carlo Rubbia]] and [[Simon van der Meer]]. The UA2 experiment also observed the first evidence for [[Jet (particle physics)|jet production]] in [[hadron]] collisions in 1981, and was involved in the searches of the [[top quark]] and of [[Superpartner|supersymmetric particles]]. [[Pierre Darriulat]] was the spokesperson of UA2 from 1981 to 1986, followed by [[Luigi Di Lella]] from 1986 to 1990.