• particle physics, B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up ( B+ ), down ( B0 ), strange ( B0 s) or charm quark ( B+ c). The combination...
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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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    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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    containing bottom quarks include: B mesons contain a bottom quark (or its antiparticle) and an up or down quark. B c and B s mesons contain a bottom quark along...
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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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  • mesons are the lightest particle containing charm quarks. They are often studied to gain knowledge on the weak interaction. The strange D mesons (Ds)...
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    Kaon (redirect from K meson)
    particle physics, a kaon (/ˈkeɪ.ɒn/), also called a K meson and denoted K , is any of a group of four mesons distinguished by a quantum number called strangeness...
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  • The B s meson is a meson composed of a bottom antiquark and a strange quark. Its antiparticle is the B s meson, composed of a bottom quark and a strange...
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  • pions and omega mesons, the rho meson carries the nuclear force within the atomic nucleus. After the pions and kaons, the rho mesons are the lightest...
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    Pion (redirect from Pi meson)
    In particle physics, a pion (or a pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi: π ) is any of three subatomic particles: π0 , π+ , and π− . Each pion consists...
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  • quarks and their antiquarks. The charmed eta meson ( η c) and bottom eta meson ( η b) are similar forms of quarkonium; they have the same spin and parity...
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    The Upsilon meson ( ϒ ) is a quarkonium state (i.e. flavourless meson) formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. It was discovered by the E288...
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    Neutral B meson oscillations (or BB oscillations) are one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the...
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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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  • B0 (redirect from B-0)
    French airline (IATA code B0) Neutral B meson (B0) Pininfarina B0, an electric car B0, an ISO 216 paper size B-0, the original name for the FLOW-MATIC...
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    Hadron (section Mesons)
    of a meson. "Exotic" hadrons, containing more than three valence quarks, have been discovered in recent years. A tetraquark state (an exotic meson), named...
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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 unusual propensity to...
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    those that are, are dubbed "hadrons", which are now further classified as mesons (middle mass) and baryons (heavy weight). But the discovery of the (neutral)...
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  • The bottom eta meson ( η b) or eta-b meson is a flavourless meson formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. It was first observed by the BaBar experiment...
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  • T mesons are hypothetical mesons composed of a top quark and one additional subatomic particle. The second subatomic particle can be either an up quark...
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    Quarkonium (redirect from Chi-B(3P))
    J/ψ meson (the ground state of charmonium, c c ) and the ϒ meson (bottomonium, b b ). Because of the high mass of the top quark, toponium (θ meson) does...
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  • previously mentioned, B → ψ B M {\displaystyle B\rightarrow \psi {\mathcal {B}}{\mathcal {M}}} , where B {\displaystyle B} is the parent B-meson, ψ {\displaystyle...
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  • The omega 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...
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    Vector mesons play a huge role in the study of the strong hadronic force. ρ meson ω meson φ meson K*(892) meson D* meson J/ψ meson ϒ meson θ meson List...
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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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    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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    example, a baryon, like a proton or a neutron, composed of three quarks; or a meson, composed of two quarks), or an elementary particle, which is not composed...
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  • decibels B, a modal logic bottom quark (symbol: b), an elementary particle B meson, a type of meson Boolean domain ( B {\displaystyle \mathbb {B} } ), in...
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    Franco Sevilla M, Hamilton B, Kowalewski R, Kuhr T, Lüth V, Sato Y (2017). "A challenge to lepton universality in B meson decays". Nature. 546 (7657):...
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  • scalar meson is a meson with total spin 0 and even parity (usually noted as JP=0+). Compare to pseudoscalar meson. The first known scalar mesons have been...
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