mesotron

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mesotron - an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0 meson b-meson - exceedingly short-lived meson boson - any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons hadron - any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles J particle, psi particle - a neutral meson with a large mass K particle, k-meson, kaon, kappa-meson - an unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision pi-meson, pion - a meson involved in holding the nucleus together; produced as the result of high-energy particle collision