: any of a group of fundamental particles (such as the pion and kaon) made up of a quark and an antiquark that are subject to the strong force and have zero or an integer number of quantum units of spin
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Any leakage is carried by the color-neutral pion and kindred mesons.
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Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
The residual strong force that these mesons mediate is also hugely important.
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
One of these bizarre particles, called the phi meson, sits at the heart of these latest befuddling results.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2023
Two of the products of that decay are an electron and a positron, which can be picked up by detectors, allowing the production of the J/ψ mesons to be registered.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
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Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
The residual strong force that these mesons mediate is also hugely important.
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
One of these bizarre particles, called the phi meson, sits at the heart of these latest befuddling results.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2023
Two of the products of that decay are an electron and a positron, which can be picked up by detectors, allowing the production of the J/ψ mesons to be registered.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
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“Meson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meson. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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: any of a group of unstable elementary particles that are subject to nuclear forces and have masses much greater than that of the electron
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