pi meson

English

Alternative forms

• π meson, π-meson, pi-meson

Etymology

From pi (“π”) +‎ meson.

Noun

pi meson (plural pi mesons)

1. (dated, formal) A pion, a type of meson.

   Synonyms: pion, πon, π-on, π

   Hyponyms: pi-plus, pi-minus, pi-zero

   • 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 146:

     There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.

Anagrams

• impones, peonism, somepin