How to Use meson in a Sentence

meson

noun
  • For example, a meson could consist of a red and an antired quark.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • But the rho meson turned out to be something of a special case, and the bootstrap method soon lost momentum.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Feb. 2017
  • While transiting the vat, some of the photons will be converted to J/ψ mesons that will then promptly decay.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Baryons, particles composed of three quarks, exhibit a stronger flow than mesons, which are particles composed of two quarks.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Tevatron discovered the top quark, the Bc meson, and the tau neutrino.
    — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2011
  • And, as with complementary colors like blue and yellow, quarks pair with antiquarks to form colorless mesons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
  • Even a small deviation from those one-third odds would indicate that the phi meson’s spin had been influenced by the circling momentum around it.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The heavier pentaquarks have masses just below the sum of the same baryon and a related meson with extra internal energy.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • The experiment also logs a smaller number of B meson decays ending with electrons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2020
  • The secret lies in an elusive, unstable particle called a B meson, which isn’t biodegrading according to plan.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Two of the products of that decay are an electron and a positron, which can be picked up by detectors, allowing the production of the J/ψ mesons to be registered.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Then there are dozens of particles made up of those elementary particles, including hadrons, which are constructed of quarks and gluons, and mesons, made of a quark and anti-quark.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
  • The lightest pentaquark has a mass just below the sum of a particular baryon and meson that together contain the correct quark ingredients.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • This oscillation proves that charm meson particles can alternate between states of matter and antimatter.
    — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
  • Each meson has a set of possible decay outcomes, and scientists have only recently begun to fully probe and explore the full range of what these possibilities are.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The oscillations between different types of meson happen perfectly well in both directions of time, just with ever-so-slightly different rates.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2012
  • By isolating particles flowing together, the team confirmed that, just as is seen in heavy collisions, these lighter collisions give rise to baryons with stronger flow and mesons with weaker flow at intermediate speeds.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • This new measurement in the B meson system -- indeed, the entire phenomenon of T violation -- has absolutely nothing to do with that arrow of time.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2012
  • That is, a rare decay of a B meson does not directly yield new particles—muons and kaons are old hat—but the rate at which the decay happens can depend on heavy, as-yet-unseen particles influencing the outcome behind the scenes.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2021

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