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- noun Plural form of
meson .
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Examples
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For the Opera experiment, some of the protons are siphoned off at an intermediate energy and slammed in pulses 10 microseconds long into a graphite target, where they produce a pulse of lesser particles called mesons.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2011
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The LHCb detector was designed to examine particles called mesons, watching them decay through time after high-energy collisions of other fundamental particles.
BBC News - Home 2011
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For the Opera experiment, some of the protons are siphoned off at an intermediate energy and slammed in pulses 10 microseconds long into a graphite target, where they produce a pulse of lesser particles called mesons.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2011
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When protons collide, their energy is predominantly transformed into particles called mesons - specifically, two types of mesons known as pions and kaons.
Latest Articles MIT News 2010
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Its findings show that the collisions produced an unexpectedly high number of particles called mesons - a factor that will have to be taken into account when physicists start looking for more rarer particles and for the theorized Higgs boson.
Latest Articles MIT News 2010
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A research team led by MIT, CERN and the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest, Hungary have released a report detailing findings that the collisions are producing an "unexpectedly" high number of particles called mesons, subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark.
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When protons collide, their energy is predominantly transformed into particles called mesons - specifically, two types of mesons known as pions and kaons.
Latest Articles 2010
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Its findings show that the collisions produced an unexpectedly high number of particles called mesons - a factor that will have to be taken into account when physicists start looking for more rarer particles and for the theorized Higgs boson.
Latest Articles 2010
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"Composite particles composed of fermions may be either bosons (such as mesons) or fermions (such as baryons)."
Walter Kohn and Density-Functional Theory Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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Composite particles composed of fermions may be either bosons (such as mesons) or fermions (such as baryons) depending on their total spin.
Walter Kohn and Density-Functional Theory Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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