mesotron (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *mesotron*:
NOUN	object	mesotron, meson	an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus

English > *mesotron*: 1 sense > noun 1, object
Meaning	An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0.
Synonym	meson
Narrower	J particle, psi particle	A neutral meson with a large mass
	b-meson	Exceedingly short-lived meson
	kaon, kappa-meson, k-meson, K particle	An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision
	pion, pi-meson	A meson involved in holding the nucleus together
Broader	boson	Any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle
Broader	hadron	Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
Spanish	mesón, mesotrón
Catalan	mesó, mesotrón

HyperDic: mesotron