The term "hadron" is a new Greek word introduced by L. B. Okun in a plenary talk at the 1962 International Conference on High Energy Physics at CERN. He opened his talk with … See more

Baryons are hadrons containing an odd number of valence quarks (at least 3). Most well-known baryons such as the proton and neutron have three valence quarks, but See more

• Exotic hadron
• Hadron therapy, a.k.a. particle therapy
• Hadronization, the formation of hadrons out of quarks and gluons
• Large Hadron Collider (LHC) See more

According to the quark model, the properties of hadrons are primarily determined by their so-called valence quarks. For example, a proton is composed of two See more

Mesons are hadrons containing an even number of valence quarks (at least two). Most well known mesons are composed of a quark-antiquark … See more

• The dictionary definition of hadron at Wiktionary See more