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    The J/ψ (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...
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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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    phenomena more readily than do baryons. But mesons can be quite massive: for example, the J/Psi meson ( J/ψ ) containing the charm quark, first seen 1974...
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    particle 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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    the charm quark was first seen in the J/Psi meson ( J/ψ ) in 1974, and the bottom quark in the upsilon meson ( ϒ ) in 1977. The top quark (the last and...
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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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  • divergence) Pound per square inch, unit of pressure PSI (computational chemistry), software J/psi meson, subatomic particle Porous silicon Water potential...
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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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    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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    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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  • atom. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M-Z See also References External links J/psi meson The J/ψ (J/psi) meson /ˈdʒeɪ ˈsaɪ ˈmiːzɒn/ or psion is a subatomic...
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  • and ϕ mesons are mixtures of the SU(3) wave functions as follows. ω = ψ 8 sin ⁡ θ + ψ 1 cos ⁡ θ {\displaystyle \omega =\psi _{8}\sin \theta +\psi _{1}\cos...
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  • eta prime meson ( η′ ) are isosinglet mesons made of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks. The charmed eta meson ( η c) and...
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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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  • Muon (redirect from Mu meson)
    muon was confirmed in 1937 by J. C. Street and E. C. Stevenson's cloud chamber experiment. A particle with a mass in the meson range had been predicted before...
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  • Examples of hadrons containing strange quarks include kaons ( K ), strange D mesons ( D s), Sigma baryons ( Σ ), and other strange particles. According to the...
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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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    The respective formulas for these oxides are N2O, NO, and NO2. In 1897, J. J. Thomson discovered that cathode rays are not electromagnetic waves but made...
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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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  • in 1970, which introduced the charm quark and predicted the J/psi meson. The J/psi meson was indeed found in 1974, which confirmed the existence of charm...
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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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  • rho 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...
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  • mesons and Yukawa particles" (PDF). Progress of Theoretical Physics. 1 (4): 143–150. Bibcode:1946PThPh...1..143S. doi:10.1143/PTP.1.143. G. Danby; J.-M...
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    the energy to produce the τ+ τ− pair is similar to the threshold for D meson production. The mass and spin of the tau were subsequently established by...
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    confined in an envelope of gluons that confer vastly greater mass to the mesons and baryons where quarks occur, so values for quark masses cannot be measured...
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    together. In the Yukawa interaction a virtual particle, later called a meson, mediated a force between all nucleons, including protons and neutrons....
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    Bibcode:2022AnPhy.43868767B. doi:10.1016/j.aop.2022.168767. S2CID 119252778. Grossman, Yuval; Lipkin, Harry J. (1997). "Flavor oscillations from a spatially...
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    as well as the ordinary quark and lepton, and thus also anything made of mesons, which are unstable particles made up of a quark and an antiquark. In the...
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    participate in the residual strong force, which is mediated by particles known as mesons. The most familiar baryons are protons and neutrons, both of which contain...
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    antiquarks in mesons. The two parties had assigned the discovered meson two different symbols, J and ψ; thus, it became formally known as the Jmeson. The discovery...
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