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Two were known as weak vector bosons and given the names of W and Z. In physical theory, bits of matter on the subatomic scale exert forces on one another through the exchange of particles.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021

The particles W+ , W− , and Z0 are called vector bosons; these were predicted by theory and first observed in 1983.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

And the LHC is still discovering properties about the top quark.The real parallel was the discovery of the W and Z vector bosons, which was in 1983 at CERN. 

From Forbes • Jul. 5, 2012

These were massive vector bosons, and we’d never seen them before. 

From Forbes • Jul. 5, 2012

As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson