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Hadron

/ˈhæd.ɹɑn/

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.

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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.

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leptonnoun	(particle physics) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.
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.)
baryonnoun	(particle physics) A heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons; a hadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thus fermions. This category includes the common proton and neutron of the atomic nucleus.
hybrid mesonnoun	(physics) A meson composed of quarks, antiquarks, and nonvirtual gluons (instead of the usual quark-antiquark pair bound by virtual gluons).
prehadronnoun	(physics) A confined complex of quarks that has some characteristics of a hadron
dihadronnoun	(physics) Any particle that is a combination of two hadrons
hadronizationnoun	(physics) The formation of hadrons from free quarks and gluons.
partonnoun	(physics, dated or historical) Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.
dibaryonnoun	(physics) Any of a proposed class of particles that would be a complex of two baryons (or six quarks).
hadronic atomnoun	(physics) a hydrogen-like system consisting of an ordinary nucleus with a hadron in orbit.
eta mesonnoun	(physics) Either of two mesons made of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks
hyperonnoun	(physics) Any baryon (a three-quark particle) with a non-zero strangeness (i.e., whose composition includes one or more strange or anti-strange quarks).
polyquarknoun	(particle physics) A hadron composed of more quarks than a baryon; a particle constituted of more than three quarks.
diquarknoun	(particle physics) The hypothetical state of two quarks grouped inside a baryon.
hypermesonnoun	(physics) The hyperon form of a meson
quarknoun	(particle physics) In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter. They are theorized not to exist in isolation, but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas.
charmoniumnoun	(particle physics) Any meson formed from a charm quark and its antiquark.
bottomoniumnoun	(particle physics) Any meson, such as an upsilon particle, formed from a bottom quark and its antiquark.
exotic hadronnoun	(particle physics) Any hadron not permitted by the quark model but allowed by the more general theory of quantum chromodynamics, including hybrid mesons, gluoniums, pentaquarks, etc.
hadronisationnoun	Alternative spelling of hadronization. [(physics) The formation of hadrons from free quarks and gluons.]