What are mesons?
Q: What are mesons?
A: Mesons are incredibly small subatomic particles that are made of one quark and one antiquark.
Q: What is an antiquark?
A: An antiquark is the antimatter counterpart of a regular quark.
Q: How do the spins of quarks and antiquarks interact?
A: The spins of quarks and antiquarks can cancel each other out, which forms a particle similar to a Higgs Boson.
Q: Where does the name "meson" come from?
A: The name meson comes from Greek "mesos", meaning middle.
Q: Why were mesons given this name?
A: Mesons were given this name because the masses of the first mesons discovered were between the mass of light particles like electrons, called leptons, and heavy particles like protons, called baryons.
Q: What are leptons?
A: Leptons are light particles like electrons.
