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pi_meson

pi meson

English

Alternative forms

  • π meson
  • π-meson
  • pi-meson

Noun

pi meson (plural pi mesons)

  1. (archaic, formal) A pion, a type of meson
    • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
      There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them [, i]n order of increasing modernity, [] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

Synonyms

  • pion
  • πon
  • π-on
  • π

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