particle physics, B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up ( B+ ), down ( B0 ), strange ( B0 s) or charm quark ( B+ c). The combination...
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In particle physics, a meson (/ˈmiːzɒn, ˈmɛzɒn/) is a type of hadronic subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually...
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vector mesons. See list of particles for a more detailed list of particles found in particle physics. This article contains a list of mesons, unstable...
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The B s meson is a meson composed of a bottom antiquark and a strange quark. Its antiparticle is the B s meson, composed of a bottom quark and a strange...
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Bottom quark (redirect from B quark)
containing bottom quarks include: B mesons contain a bottom quark (or its antiparticle) and an up or down quark. B c and B s mesons contain a bottom quark along...
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D mesons are the lightest particle containing charm quarks. They are often studied to gain knowledge on the weak interaction. The strange D mesons (Ds)...
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The bottom eta meson ( η b) or eta-b meson is a flavourless meson formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. It was first observed by the BaBar experiment...
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pions and omega mesons, the rho meson carries the nuclear force within the atomic nucleus. After the pions and kaons, the rho mesons are the lightest...
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quarks and their antiquarks. The charmed eta meson ( η c) and bottom eta meson ( η b) are similar forms of quarkonium; they have the same spin and parity...
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The Upsilon meson ( ϒ ) is a quarkonium state (i.e. flavourless meson) formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. It was discovered by the E288...
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(J/psi) meson /ˈdʒeɪ ˈsaɪ ˈmiːzɒn/ is a subatomic particle, a flavor-neutral meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. Mesons formed by...
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Neutral B meson oscillations (or B – B oscillations) are one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the...
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c ) and ϒ ( b b ) mesons. Due to the top quark's short lifetime, the theta meson is expected to not be observed in nature. List of mesons Roos, M.; Wohl...
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Eightfold way (physics) (redirect from Meson octet)
those that are, are dubbed "hadrons", which are now further classified as mesons (middle mass) and baryons (heavy weight). But the discovery of the neutral...
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physics, exotic mesons are mesons that have quantum numbers not possible in the quark model; some proposals for non-standard quark model mesons could be: glueballs...
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previously mentioned, B → ψ B M {\displaystyle B\rightarrow \psi {\mathcal {B}}{\mathcal {M}}} , where B {\displaystyle B} is the parent B-meson, ψ {\displaystyle...
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T mesons are hypothetical mesons composed of a top quark and one additional subatomic particle. The second subatomic particle can be either an up quark...
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Vector mesons play a huge role in the study of the strong hadronic force. ρ meson ω meson φ meson K*(892) meson D* meson J/ψ meson ϒ meson θ meson List...
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physics, a pseudoscalar meson is a meson with total spin 0 and odd parity (usually notated as JP = 0− ). Pseudoscalar mesons are commonly seen in proton-proton...
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CLEO (particle detector) (section B mesons)
slightly above the threshold for, and therefore ideal for the study of, B meson production. CLEO was a hermetic detector that in all of its versions consisted...
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The omega meson ( ω ) is a flavourless meson formed from a superposition of an up quark–antiquark and a down quark–antiquark pair. It is part of the vector...
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particle physics, the phi meson or ϕ meson is a vector meson formed of a strange quark and a strange antiquark. It was the ϕ meson's unusual propensity to...
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Quarkonium (redirect from Chi-B(3P))
physics, quarkonium (from quark and -onium, pl. quarkonia) is a flavorless meson whose constituents are a heavy quark and its own antiquark, making it both...
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Charm quark (section J/psi meson (1974))
found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions. Several...
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scalar meson is a meson with total spin 0 and even parity (usually noted as JP=0+). Compare to pseudoscalar meson. The first known scalar mesons have been...
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