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    In high energy physics, a vector meson is a meson with total spin 1 and odd parity (usually noted as JP = 1−). Vector mesons have been seen in experiments...
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  • In physics, vector meson dominance (VMD) was a model developed by J. J. Sakurai in the 1960s before the introduction of quantum chromodynamics to describe...
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    In particle physics, a meson (/ˈmiːzɒn, ˈmɛzɒn/) is a type of hadronic subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually...
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  • composite particles are vector bosons, for instance any vector meson (quark and antiquark). During the 1970s and 1980s, intermediate vector bosons (the W and...
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  • meson has spin j = 1 (a vector meson) and a much higher value of the mass. This mass difference between the pions and rho mesons is attributed to a large...
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    and vector mesons. See list of particles for a more detailed list of particles found in particle physics. This article contains a list of mesons, unstable...
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    Pion (redirect from Pi meson)
    decay into gamma rays. The exchange of virtual pions, along with vector, rho and omega mesons, provides an explanation for the residual strong force between...
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  • pseudovector meson or axial vector meson is a meson with total spin 1 and even parity (+) (usually noted as J P = 1+ ). Compare to a vector meson, which has...
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    particle physics, the phi meson or ϕ meson is a vector meson formed of a strange quark and a strange antiquark. It was the ϕ meson's unexpected propensity...
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  • meson (ω) is a flavourless meson formed from a superposition of an up quark–antiquark and a down quark–antiquark pair. It is part of the vector meson...
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    250–300 MeV/c2. List of mesons Vector meson Pseudovector meson Pseudoscalar boson Compare the definition of the pseudoscalar meson to the scalar meson. Because the...
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    the vector meson theory of nuclear forces and the relativistic quantum field equations that bear his name (Proca's equations) for the massive, vector spin-1...
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  • the 1980s. Scalar mesons are most often observed in proton-antiproton annihilation, radiative decays of vector mesons, and meson-meson scattering. The light...
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  • properties Vector meson, a meson with total spin 1 and odd parity Vector quantization, a quantization technique used in signal processing Vector soliton...
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    those that are, are dubbed "hadrons"; these are now further classified as mesons (from the Greek for "intermediate") and baryons (from the Greek for "heavy")...
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    the vector meson. The paper introduced the interaction of vector meson, photon (vector electrodynamics), and the renormalisation of vector mesons' known...
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  • of protons and neutrons are substantially different. A theory called Vector Meson Dominance (VMD) was developed to explain this effect. According to VMD...
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  • 14.414. Jenkovszky; Martynov; Paccanoni (1996). "Regge Pole Model for Vector Meson Photoproduction at HERA". arXiv:hep-ph/9608384. Kaidalov (2001). "Regge...
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  • Muon (redirect from Mu meson)
    the two different types of mesons after the second meson was discovered, the initial mesotron particle was renamed the mu meson (the Greek letter μ [mu]...
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    (J/psi) meson /ˈdʒeɪ ˈsaɪ ˈmiːzɒn/ is a subatomic particle, a flavor-neutral meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. Mesons formed by...
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    Quark model (section Mesons)
    l'étrangeté et une formule de masse pour les mésons vectoriels" [Strangeness properties and a mass formula for vector meson]. Nuclear Physics. 63 (2): 349–352....
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    physics, exotic mesons are mesons that have quantum numbers not possible in the quark model; some proposals for non-standard quark model mesons could be: glueballs...
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    a vector meson. The probing photon couples to a constituent of this meson. Double resolved: Both target and probe photon have formed a vector meson. This...
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    field which generate these rotations become massive vector mesons. There are two massive W mesons in the Schwinger model, with a mass set by the mass...
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    massive light rays showing that light rays and massive light rays (vector mesons) can transform into each other at high energies and providing a critical...
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  • Look up VMD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. VMD may refer to: Vector meson dominance, in physics a model describing the hadron photoproduction process...
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    mesons, such as the virtual pions, as well as two types of virtual mesons with spin (vector mesons), the rho mesons and the omega mesons. The vector mesons...
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  • of omega meson-first neutral vector meson: one researcher's account - Discovery story". Advanced Experimental Physics. 5: 79–105. Omega Meson Observed...
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    found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions. Several...
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  • current led to the prediction of rho-photon mixing and the concept of vector meson dominance, ideas which led to successful theoretical pictures of GeV-scale...
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