Composite Particles That Are Composed of a Quark and Antiquark

question 17

Multiple Choice

Composite particles that are composed of a quark and antiquark pair are called

• A) leptons.
• B) hadrons.
• C) mesons.
• D) nucleons.
• E) baryons.

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