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any elementary particle that is subject to the strong interaction. Hadrons are subdivided into baryons and mesons

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  • Outside the electromagnetic calorimeter is the "hadronic" calorimeter which detects the energy left by charged pions and other hadrons, particles which contain quarks,...
  • No one has much clue as to what it is but it seems to have to be assumed it is hadronic, otherwise why would it be anything as close as a factor 30 to the protons?
  • This was back in the day when quarks and gluons were just discovered and the theory of their interactions and their binding into hadronic states was being developed.
  • hadronic” means “made of quarks”; almost nobody thinks the dark matter is hadronic, and in fact it would be extremely difficult to reconcile that idea with...
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