pi·on
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Definition of pion
: a meson that is a combination of up and down quarks and antiquarks, that may be positive, negative, or neutral, and that has a mass about 270 times that of the electron
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In 2019, Alberg and Miller calculated what SeaQuest should observe based on the pion cloud idea.
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Quanta Magazine, "Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter," 24 Feb. 2021
An early triumph in which Chew’s students used the bootstrap to predict the mass of the rho meson — a particle made of pions that are held together by exchanging rho mesons — won many converts.
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Quanta Magazine, "Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’," 23 Feb. 2017
The Xi decays into a particle called the lambda baryon and three lighter particles, the K- (or kaon) and two pions.
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Fox News, "‘Charming’ heavy particle discovered at world’s largest atom smasher," 11 July 2017
The most famous of these two-quark particles are kaons and pions.
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Adam Mann, WIRED, "Mysterious Subatomic Particle May Represent Exotic New Form of Matter," 17 June 2013
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“Pion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pion. Accessed 17 May. 2021.
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The first known use of pion was in 1950
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