Mesons are part of the Hadron group along with Baryons, and are subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. (Baryons being composed of three quarks.) Quarks and leptons are elementary particles, and that is the fundamental difference.
Quarks and leptons must combine in twos or threes due to the principles of quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model of particle physics. Quarks combine in groups of three to form baryons (like protons and neutrons) or in pairs to form mesons, adhering to the requirement of color charge conservation. Leptons, on the other hand, exist as individual particles or in pairs with their corresponding neutrinos, but they do not combine to form composite particles like quarks do. This structure ensures the stability of matter and reflects the fundamental symmetries and conservation laws governing particle interactions.
Leptons
LEPTONS are basically family of fundamental subatomic particles consisting of electron, muon, tauon(tau) particles with their corresponding neutrinos They have spin 1/2. They do not strongly interact.
Baryons are particles composed of three, "color-neutralizing" quarks. Protons and neutrons are the most well-known examples. Mesons are particles composed of a quark/antiquark pair. The pion is the best-known example.
They are leptons, bosons, hadrons, fermions etc.
Hadrons are particles composed of quarks. There are two (known) types of hadrons: mesons, which consist of a quark and an antiquark, and baryons, which consist of three quarks (or three antiquarks). Leptons are a separate type of particles. They are not composed of quarks, but are elementary particles in their own right.
all particles in particle physics are divided into two sub groups the hadrons and leptons the difference between them being that baryons interact by strong force leptons interact by weak force the hadron group can be further subdivided into two more groups the mesons and baryons muons are part of the lepton group
η-mesons, π-mesons and κ-mesons, k-mesons.
Mesons are subatomic particles that are made up of a quark and an antiquark bound together. They are responsible for the strong nuclear force that holds protons and neutrons together in the atomic nucleus. Mesons have integer spin and decay rapidly into other particles.
Quarks are elementary particles that combine to form protons and neutrons, which are found in the nucleus of atoms. Leptons are another type of elementary particle that do not participate in the strong nuclear force and include electrons, muons, and tau particles. Quarks have fractional electric charges while leptons have integer electric charges.
Mesons hold protons and neutrons together by mediating the strong nuclear force between them. This force is carried by the exchange of mesons between quarks inside the protons and neutrons. The strong nuclear force is responsible for binding protons and neutrons together in the atomic nucleus.
Leptons are just called that: "leptons". (One example of a lepton is an electron.)
There are two types of subatomic particles hypothesized to comprise protons and neutrons. Elementary particles having mass by the types of quarks, leptons and bosons are the first. The second are composite particles, which include baryons, mesons, and leptons.
Baryons and mesons interact through the strong nuclear force, mediated by the exchange of gluons. Baryons are made of three quarks while mesons are made of a quark-antiquark pair. These particles exchange gluons to transmit the strong force between them, which governs their interactions within the nucleus.
No, electrons are not examples of hadrons. Hadrons are composite particles made up of quarks, such as protons and neutrons, while electrons are elementary particles that are not made up of smaller particles.
Quarks and leptons must combine in twos or threes due to the principles of quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model of particle physics. Quarks combine in groups of three to form baryons (like protons and neutrons) or in pairs to form mesons, adhering to the requirement of color charge conservation. Leptons, on the other hand, exist as individual particles or in pairs with their corresponding neutrinos, but they do not combine to form composite particles like quarks do. This structure ensures the stability of matter and reflects the fundamental symmetries and conservation laws governing particle interactions.
there is no difference b/w meson theory an yukawa theory of nuclear forces because yukawa predicted the nuclear forces as exchange of boson(messons) b/w neutron and proton which keep them bind in an atomic nuclei. so meson theory is just another name of yukawa's theory of nuclear forces.