mesons
- plural of meson.
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Since then, the LHCb experiment has recorded three times as many B mesons.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
"Our measurements provide important new clues about how mesons behave in nuclear matter," says Itahashi.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
One promising approach involves mesons, which are particles made of a quark and an anti-quark, bound together with an atomic nucleus.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
The phi mesons were indeed spinning along with the quark-gluon soup but in ways very far from theoretical predictions.
From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2023
Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons, which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other, producing electrons and other particles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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