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a meson involved in holding the nucleus together

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Experimental studies of total pion to kaon multiplicity ratio (([K.sup.+] + [K.sup.-])/([[pi].sup.+] + [[pi].sup.-]) = K/[pi]) in pp collisions have been reported by different collaborators in different times over a wide range of energy.
Car l'antre blanche ne le sait que trop bien, la difference de niveau, abyssale, appelle de nouveaux pions blaugrana.
Pion. "We're excited to have Connie on board - she's really the right person at the right time," said Troy Siebels, chairman of the Destination Worcester Board of Directors.
The maximum of the gamma-rays from the pion decay is equal to 1 x [10.sup.-3] photons [cm.sup.-2] [s.sup.-1] [MeV.sup.-1] (see Figure 8).
The pion is made of a u, d quark-antiquark pair and its mass is about 140MeV.
Topics are varied, ranging from neutral pion decay and particle physics outreach to secondary education to Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider.
So there's a limit to how fast the particles can zip along, dictated by the energy of their unstable pion parents.
"Il est clair qu'il est devenu un pion de ce regime", ajoute-t-il.
In Roman times the coast was situated on the northern slopes of the hills Coressus and Pion, and south of the Cayster (Kucuk Menderes) River, but the silt from this river formed a fertile plain which caused the coastline to move even farther west.
EVANDER Holyfield failed narrowly to become the oldest heavyweight cham pion of all time as Nikolai Valuev clinched a close majority decision in Switzerland.
Posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (PION) is a relatively rare but often devastating complication of hypotensive episodes during surgery, critical illness or dialysis.
IT was third time lucky for Laura Kenney when the 20-year old Royal Sutton Coldfield runner was crowned Warwickshire Women's Cross Country cham- pion at Hinckley yesterday.
Nugent succeeds Jeffrey Pion, an Executive Vice President in Los Angeles, whose term as a Board member and BOAC Chairman has been completed.