Definition of "mesons" [mesons]

• Plural form of meson. (noun)

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• "For the Opera experiment, some of the protons are siphoned off at an intermediate energy and slammed in pulses 10 microseconds long into a graphite target, where they produce a pulse of lesser particles called mesons."
• "The LHCb detector was designed to examine particles called mesons, watching them decay through time after high-energy collisions of other fundamental particles."
• "When protons collide, their energy is predominantly transformed into particles called mesons - specifically, two types of mesons known as pions and kaons."