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hadron era
Large Hadron Collider
Particle accelerator for smashing protons.
exotic hadron
(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.
High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
The (HL-LHC; formerly referred to as HiLumi LHC, Super LHC, and SLHC) an upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider, operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located at the French-Swiss border near Geneva.
Very Large Hadron Collider
a proposed future hadron collider planned to be located at Fermilab.
Hadron epoch
In physical cosmology, the hadron epoch started 20 microseconds after the Big Bang.
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