pi-meson

Noun

Meaning

a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision

Alternative names

pi meson

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As more types of mesons were discovered in accelerator experiments later, it was eventually found that the mu meson significantly differed not only from the pi meson (of about the same mass), but also from all other types of mesons. Source: Internet

Later, the discovery of the pi meson showed it to have the properties of Yukawa's particle. Source: Internet

Newer mesons also showed evidence of behaving like the pi meson in nuclear interactions, but not like the mu meson. Source: Internet

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