• 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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    Pion (redirect from Pi meson)
    In particle physics, a pion (/ˈpaɪ.ɒn/, PIE-on) or pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi ( π ), is any of three subatomic particles: π0 , π+ , and...
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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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  • 1093/ptep/ptaa104. hdl:11585/772320. Maglich, B. (1976). "Discovery of omega meson-first neutral vector meson: one researcher's personal account - Discovery...
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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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    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, 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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    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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  • in the neutral K meson and B meson. List of mesons List of particles Timeline of particle discoveries Nave, G., ed. (2016). "D meson". Department of Physics...
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  • charm antiquark ( T0 c) or bottom antiquark ( T+ b). Because of the top quark's short lifetime, T mesons are not expected to be found in nature. The combination...
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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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    (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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    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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  • pseudovector meson or axial vector meson is a meson with total spin 1 and even parity (+) (usually noted as J P = 1+ ). Compare to a vector meson, which has...
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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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    Kaon (redirect from K meson)
    In particle physics, a kaon, also called a K meson and denoted K , is any of a group of four mesons distinguished by a quantum number called strangeness...
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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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    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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  • Muon (redirect from Mu meson)
    the two different types of mesons after the second meson was discovered, the initial mesotron particle was renamed the mu meson (the Greek letter μ [mu]...
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    Hadron (section Mesons)
    particles made of three, five or a larger odd number of quarks) have B = 1 whereas mesons have B = 0. Hadrons have excited states known as resonances. Each ground...
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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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  • energy physics, a scalar meson is a meson with total spin 0 and even parity (usually noted as JP=0+). In contrast, pseudoscalar mesons have odd parity. The...
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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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  • Anne Meson (born 12 May 1975) is a French show host and singer. Her mother Anne was a Russian artist and a dance teacher. Her father José was a Spanish...
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    Neutral B meson oscillations (or BB oscillations) are one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the...
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  • physics, a B-factory, or sometimes a beauty factory, is a particle collider experiment designed to produce and detect a large number of B mesons so that...
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    those that are, are dubbed "hadrons"; these are now further classified as mesons (middle mass) and baryons (heavy weight). But the discovery of the neutral...
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  • In high-energy astrophysics, a photo-meson is a meson (most often a pion) produced in the interaction of a photon with a nucleon within an astrophysical...
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