Search our database of handpicked sites
Looking for a great physics site? We've tracked down the very best and checked them for accuracy. Just pick a topic, tell us your age and knowledge level and we'll do the rest.
You searched for “meson”
We found 5 results in our database of sites
Search results from our links database
Showing 1 - 5 of 5
Showing 1 - 5 of 5
Hyperphysics - Asymptotic Freedom
As the quarks within a meson or baryon get closer together, the force of containment gets weaker so that it asymptotically approaches zero for close confinement.
Rating: 
Hits: 143
Pion
Description of a pion, the lightest of the meson sub-atomic particles
Rating:
Hits: 182
Psi/J Particle
The psi/J particle is a meson which was discovered in 1974 by experimenters at Stanford (Richter) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (Ting). Slightly more than three times as massive as the proton, ...
Rating:
Hits: 137
Upsilon Particle
The upsilon particle is a meson which was discovered at Fermilab in 1977.
Rating:
Hits: 133
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa (1907 - 1981) published a paper in which he proposed a new field theory of nuclear forces and predicted the existence of the meson. Hideki Yukawa received the Nobel Prize for Physics in ...
Rating:
Hits: 158
Showing 1 - 5 of 5