MESOTRON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0

Synonyms:

meson; mesotron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("mesotron" is a kind of...):

boson (any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons)

hadron (any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mesotron"):

b-meson (exceedingly short-lived meson)

J particle; psi particle (a neutral meson with a large mass)

k-meson; K particle; kaon; kappa-meson (an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision)

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