Definition of charmonium in English:
charmonium
nounPlural charmonia tʃɑːˈməʊnɪəmCHärˈmōnēəm
Physics A combination of a charmed quark and antiquark.
Example sentencesExamples
- The measurement of the production rate of the J / and other charmonium mesons was a key indicator of possible new phenomena in the pioneering CERN experiments.
- Using the ingredients from those calculations we calculate also exclusive electroproduction of charmonia off nuclei.
- Comprehensive reports on the physics of charmonium production are available.
- In collisions at high energies, charmonium particles come from the decay of b-flavoured hadrons and prompt production.
- The hadron is represented by an external color field and the charmonium is represented by a small color dipole.
Origin
1970s: from charm (sense 4 of the noun).