hadron
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈhæd.ɹɑn/
Noun

hadron (plural hadrons)

  1. (particle) 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.
    • 1996, J. R. Batley, Measurements of B Hadron Lifetimes at LEP, Michael C. Birse, G. D. Lafferty, J. A. McGovern (editors), Hadron '95: The 6th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, World Scientific, page 48 ↗,
      The weak decays of b hadrons are dominated by the spectator model process whereby the b quark decays to a c quark (or occasionally a u quark) with the emission of an external W, while the non-b antiquark or diquark acts simply as a passive spectator to the decay.
    • 2005, D. B. Leinweber, A. W. Thomas, R. D. Young, Hadron Structure and QCD: Effective Field Theory for Lattice Simulations, Alex C. Kalloniatis, Derek B. Leinweber, Anthony G. Williams (editors), Lattice Hadron Physics, Springer, page 114 ↗,
      One can use the lattice simulations, which do represent the rigorous consequences of non-perturbative QCD, as guidance for models of hadron structure.
    • 2017, Syed Afsar Abbas, Group Theory in Particle, Nuclear, and Hadron Physics, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press / Chapman & Hall), page 204 ↗,
      And hence colour, which was initially an ad hoc concept, later turned out to be an empirically confirmed reality of hadrons.
Translations
  • French: hadron
  • German: Hadron
  • Italian: adrone
  • Portuguese: hadrão (Portugal), hádron (Brazil)
  • Russian: адро́н
  • Spanish: hadrón



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