nuclear particles

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Yang and Lee's hypothesis, though, suggested that the behavior of nuclear particles in beta decay might not look the same if you flipped the events in an imaginary mirror.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2023

The main source of concern here is radioactive dust, or the nuclear particles that are created by an event such as the Chernobyl accident.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2022

Researchers soon found that some of the supercharged nuclear particles would glom on to the atoms in the targets and create bigger, heavier elements.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019

Dubbed a “superfluid” in recognition of its special properties, the material embodies fermions, atomic and nuclear particles distinguished by what is known as their half-integral spin.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2016

And there was Kato Sugihara, looking younger than his twenty-eight years, who had begun to demonstrate the existence of whole orders of structure below the level of nuclear particles.

From The Mercenaries by Piper, H. Beam