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- noun a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision
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The pi-meson, the messenger of the strong force that keeps the atomic nucleus together, has an unusual property.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 - Illustrated Presentation 2008
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Nambu's theory also claimed that the pi-meson was a composite particle today we know that it is composed of quarks.
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- The many pi-meson decaysresulted in a collimated beam of muons and neutrinos.
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