YUKAWA MESON


Meaning of YUKAWA MESON in English

Physics.

a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.

[ 1960-65; after H. YUKAWA ]

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