exotic hadron

English

Noun

exotic hadron (plural exotic hadrons)

  1. (particle physics) Any hadron not permitted by the quark model but allowed by the more general theory of quantum chromodynamics, including hybrid mesons, gluoniums, pentaquarks, etc.
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