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单词 mesotron
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mesotronn.

Brit. /ˈmɛsə(ʊ)trɒn/, U.S. /ˈmɛzəˌtrɑn/; see also meso- comb. form.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meso- comb. form, -tron suffix.
Etymology: < meso- comb. form + -tron suffix (see quot. 1938). Largely superseded by later meson n.3The reference in quot. 1987 is to Hideki Yukawa (1907–81), Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner, who in 1935 proposed an exchange particle mediating the force between nucleons. The ‘mesotron’, discovered in 1936, had some of the properties of the predicted particle, but not all. The pi-meson or pion, discovered in 1947, fulfilled all the requirements of Yukawa's particle.
Particle Physics. Now historical.
A meson (in the original sense: see meson n.3); spec. = mu-meson n.
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1938 C. D. Anderson & S. H. Neddermeyer in Nature 12 Nov. 878/2 The existence of particles intermediate in mass between protons and electrons has been shown in experiments on the cosmic radiation... We should like to suggest..the word ‘mesotron’ (intermediate particle) as a name for the new particles.
1942 Endeavour Jan. 22/2 Skobeltzyn..has argued against the theory of Heisenberg and Euler that the spontaneous disintegration of mesotrons is the mechanism responsible for the formation of the electronic component observed in the lower layers of the atmosphere.
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook x. 136 The so-called ‘elementary particles’—electrons, photons, neutrons, mesotrons, and so forth.
1987 Nature 30 July 375/1 There were protons and neutrons..and ‘mesotrons’—the particles postulated in 1935 by Yukawa as the mediators of the forces between nucleons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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