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==Major discoveries==
Major scientific discoveries made by experiments that operated at the SPS include the following.

*1983: The discovery of [[W and Z bosons]] in the [[UA1 experiment|UA1]] and [[UA2 experiment]]s.<ref name="wz">{{cite web |title=CERN.ch La |url=https://timeline.web.cern.ch/discovery-w-particle |access-date=20 November 2010 |publisher=Public.web.cern.ch}}</ref> The 1984 [[Nobel Prize for Physics|Nobel Prize in physics]] was awarded to [[Carlo Rubbia]] and [[Simon van der Meer]] for the developments that led to this discovery.
*1999: The discovery of direct [[CP violation]] by the [[NA48 experiment]].<ref name="NA48">{{cite journal |last1=Fanti |first1=V. |title=A new measurement of direct CP violation in two pion decays of the neutral kaon|journal=[[Physics Letters B]] |volume=465 |issue=1–4 |pages=335–348 |year=1999 |arxiv=hep-ex/9909022 |bibcode = 1999PhLB..465..335F |doi = 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01030-8 |display-authors=1 |last2=Lai |first2=A. |last3=Marras |first3=D. |last4=Musa |first4=L. |last5=Bevan |first5=A.J. |last6=Gershon |first6=T.J. |last7=Hay |first7=B. |last8=Moore |first8=R.W. |last9=Moore |first9=K.N.|s2cid=15277360 }}</ref>