{"id":218275,"date":"2025-07-19T02:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/standard-candle-particle-measurement-enables-hunt-for-hybrid-mesons"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:18:53","slug":"standard-candle-particle-measurement-enables-hunt-for-hybrid-mesons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/standard-candle-particle-measurement-enables-hunt-for-hybrid-mesons","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Standard candle\u2019 particle measurement enables hunt for hybrid mesons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/standard-candle-particle-measurement-enables-hunt-for-hybrid-mesons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons are composed of quarks bound together by the strong nuclear force. But these short-lived particles have different characteristics that can reveal new information about the atomic nucleus and how the universe works.<\/p>\n<p>Advancing this understanding could one day enable new discoveries in many fields, ranging from nuclear power to medicine and materials engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called a<sub>2<\/sub> meson is a relatively lightweight system of quarks. It is produced in experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons are composed of quarks bound together by the strong nuclear force. But these short-lived particles have different characteristics that can reveal new information about the atomic nucleus and how the universe works. Advancing this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}