💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Eta meson"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| mesonnoun | (now specifically, particle physics) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.) |
| hybrid mesonnoun | (physics) A meson composed of quarks, antiquarks, and nonvirtual gluons (instead of the usual quark-antiquark pair bound by virtual gluons). |
| mesoniumnoun | (physics) Any exotic atom formed from a meson and an electron |
| mesotronnoun | (physics, dated) meson |
| strangeoniumnoun | (particle physics) Any meson formed from a strange quark and its antiquark |
| hypermesonnoun | (physics) The hyperon form of a meson |
| kaonnoun | (particle physics) any of four unstable subatomic particles, mesons, they are a combination of a strange quark or antiquark and either an up or down quark or antiquark |
| hadronnoun | (particle physics) A composite particle that comprises two or more quarks held together by the strong force and (consequently) can interact with other particles via said force; a meson or a baryon. |
| upsilon mesonnoun | The upsilon particle |
| exotic mesonnoun | (physics) A meson existing outside of the quark model, such as a hybrid meson or a glueball. |
| strangeletnoun | (physics) A proposed fragment of strange matter, consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. |
| lambda baryonnoun | (physics) Any of three particles, having no electric charge and an isotopic spin of 1, composed of an up quark, down quark and either a strange quark, a charm quark or a bottom quark. |
| quark-antiquarknoun | A particle-antiparticle pair in hadrons and mesons. |
| rho mesonnoun | (physics) A short-lived hadronic isospin triplet. |
| quarkoniumnoun | (particle physics) A flavorless meson whose constituents are a quark and its own antiquark. |
| bottomoniumnoun | (particle physics) Any meson, such as an upsilon particle, formed from a bottom quark and its antiquark. |
| photomesonnoun | (physics) A meson (usually a p-meson) ejected from a nucleus by an impinging photon |
| antimesonnoun | (particle physics) The antiparticle corresponding to a meson. |
| pionnoun | (particle physics) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks. |
| bottoniumnoun | (particle physics) Synonym of bottomonium. |
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