(1) He suggested that the strong nuclear force results from the exchange of a particle between the neutrons and the protons; he named that exchange particle a meson .(2) Must be because our mesons and quarks and stuff are linked, like the way you can see me even though I'm not really here.(3) At that time, researchers were using cosmic radiation as a source of high-energy particles to study nuclear reactions and properties of the newly discovered p and m mesons .(4) Composite bosons, or mesons , help to hold atoms together.(5) Gell-Mann distinguished baryons from mesons , the other hadron subclassification, by the number of quarks constituting their make-up.(6) Electrons and positrons collide at unequal energies inside a sophisticated, 1,200-ton particle detector called BABAR, creating millions of short-lived subatomic particles know as B mesons .(7) The researchers studied the production of neutral mesons when a neutron is captured by a proton in a hydrogen target to form a deuteron.(8) The existence of quarks inside the mesons and baryons had to be deduced mathematically because free quarks have never been observed by particle physics.(9) Protons and neutrons sense each other via exchange particles (called pi mesons , or pions) with each other in the nucleus.(10) The simplest hadrons are therefore mesons made from a quark and antiquark pair (where the difference is zero), and baryons made of three quarks (where the difference is three).(11) Each of the new versions was a little bit different, and it was always hoped that one of the new versions would look exactly like protons, neutrons, mesons , and so forth.(12) A particle physicist is not expected to be impartial about the quarks and mesons spinning about in his plasma stew, but he is expected to produce evidence and findings that are honest and reproducible.(13) Prior to this era, protons and neutrons and mesons don't exist, there is just a hot soup of quarks and gluons in their place.(14) This includes mesons like pions, gauge particles like photons and gluons, the hypothesized Higgs scalar, etc.(15) They proposed that particles like the proton, the neutron, and the mesons , which feel the strong nuclear force, are not elementary particles at all, but possess internal constituents.(16) Most particles are either mesons , which contain a quark and an antiquark, or baryons, which comprise three quarks or three antiquarks.
