meson
noun
any hadron, or strongly interacting particle, other than a baryon. Mesons are bosons, having spins of 0, 1, 2, …, and, unlike baryons, do not obey a conservation law.
mesons
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pluralof meson.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This penguin decay is incredibly rare in the Standard Model: for every million B mesons, only one will decay in this manner.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
The result comes from studying the decay – a kind of transformation – of sub-atomic particles called B mesons.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Under certain conditions, short-lived particles known as mesons, which exist for less than ten-millionth of a second, can become temporarily trapped inside an atomic nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
This is what Wang and his colleagues have proposed in a recent preprint study: the movement of the phi mesons themselves creates a strong force field whose minuscule fluctuations are affecting mesons’ spin polarization.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2023
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
