hadronic
- adjective
- /hæˈdrɒnɪk/
- Specialized
- Researchers study hadronic interactions to understand how protons and neutrons behave at high energies.
- hadronic debris
- hadronic matter
- ordinary hadronic
Examples
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Because a is small, electromagnetic cross sections are smaller than corresponding hadronic cross sections by two or three orders of magnitude.
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When this cooling from the quark-gluon plasma occurs, how do you get back to normal hadronic matter?
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Experiments must determine its equation of state and the character of its phase transition to ordinary hadronic matter.
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A variety of high- and low-energy hadronic interaction models is implemented.
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Very wide hadronic states can be hard to distinguish from non-resonant backgrounds.
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Hadronic probe particles, by contrast, interact mostly on the nuclear surface.
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The hadronic debris into which the nucleon breaks up is generally not measured.
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Although hadronic phenomena are relatively accessible to experiment, most hadron-hadron interactions are difficult to relate to questions of structure.
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Theorists content themselves with models that combine quark or hadronic degrees of freedom with phenomenological interactions.
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Much of their work involved the formulation of experimentally testable sum rules based on the algebra of hadronic current operators in quantum field theories.
Academic text (2004)
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Etymology
Hadronic comes from the word hadron, which was formed from the Greek hadros, meaning 'thick' or 'heavy'. So hadronic describes things that are about hadrons, the 'heavy' subatomic particles like protons and neutrons.