How to Use hadron in a Sentence

hadron

noun
  • Researchers hope that simulating this process will reveal how hadrons formed during the birth of the universe.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • And much like the FCC, a proton or other hadron upgrade is in the works after that.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Finding these kinds of particles helps teach physicists about the strong force, which is the most powerful force in nature and binds hadrons together.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Compared with the collisions between messy, beanbag-like hadrons, a collision between electrons and positrons is much cleaner.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Other researchers soon realized that his formula, now known as the Veneziano amplitude, implied that hadrons aren’t particles, but vibrating strings.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Three of the new colliders would improve on the LHC’s precision by colliding electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, instead of hadrons.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In a recent preprint, Halimeh, Ringbauer and collaborators proposed an algorithm that uses qudits to simulate the collisions of hadrons — particles such as protons that are made out of quarks and gluons.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Initially an electron-positron Higgs factory, subsequent upgrades would create a ~100+ TeV hadron collider.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The large hadron collider’s hefty computing requirements The LHC, a massive underground facility straddling the border of France and Switzerland, has been smashing particles together since 2008, revealing critical insights into the fundamental laws of physics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2025

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