How to Use pion in a Sentence

pion

noun
  • The team modeled how quarks move both along the pion’s direction of motion and across it.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The team also found that the pion appears smaller than the proton at moderate momentum values.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • As per Zhao, one notable finding was that the pion’s transverse size decreases as its momentum increases.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The images showed how quarks carrying different fractions of the pion’s momentum are distributed across the particle.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • Mapping the pion Pions are among the lightest and simplest subatomic particles.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • This is the telltale signature of Δ resonances decaying into pion-nucleon pairs that then coalesce into deuterons.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This reportedly recreated the pion’s internal structure in remarkable detail.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The calculations revealed the quark generalized parton distribution (GPD) of the pion.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The detection challenge is to sort deuterons and antideuterons from other subatomic particles, such as pions, protons, and kaons, and to measure momenta precisely enough to observe femtoscopic correlations.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Above some critical energy threshold, interactions between those photons and a cosmic ray will be energetic enough that additional particles, like pions, will spontaneously be created.
    — Big Think, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Zhao pointed out that examining the pion’s multidimensional structure provides a deeper insight into the particle’s fundamental properties.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The study, which helped reveal the internal structure of a pion in unprecedented detail, was conducted by a research team at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • By requiring agreement between TPC energy loss and TOF velocity measurements, ALICE achieves 99 percent purity for pion identification and 100% for deuterons—even in events where 30 particles are flying apart simultaneously.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026

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