What is the meaning of the word "b-meson"?
The presence of the bottom quark is what distinguishes B mesons from other types of mesons.
Definitions:
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A type of subatomic particle in the meson family which consists of a quark and an antiquark.
NOUN
- The discovery of B-meson oscillations provided crucial evidence for the existence of the third generation of quarks.
- The discovery of B-meson oscillations provided crucial evidence for the existence of the third generation of quarks.
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Any of a class of short-lived mesons that are thought to be a combination of one bottom antiquark and either an up, down, or strange quark. noun
- The physicists saw evidence of a bmeson.
- The physicists saw evidence of a bmeson.