How to Use meson in a Sentence

meson

noun

• All eyes are on the B meson, a yoked pair of quark particles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 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
• The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
• For example, a meson could consist of a red and an antired quark.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• And, as with complementary colors like blue and yellow, quarks pair with antiquarks to form colorless mesons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The experiment also logs a smaller number of B meson decays ending with electrons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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

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