Definition of Isospin

1. Noun. (physics) A quantum number or symmetry related to the strong interaction ¹

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Definition of Isospin

1. a type of quantum number [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Isospin

isoselenocyanates
isosensitise
isoserum treatment
isosinglet
isosmotic
isosmotic solution
isosmotically
isosorbide
isosorbide dinitrate
isosorbides
isosparteine
isospecific
isospectral
isospectrality
isospin (current term)
isospins
isospondyli
isospondylous
isospora
isosporiasis
isosporic
isospories
isostacies
isostacy
isostasies
isostasy
isostatic
isostatically

Literary usage of Isospin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"Moreover. it should be pointed out that, as for light- and medium-mass isotopes. where neutrons and protons occupy the same major shells. isospin is a ..."

2. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"A name for the set of quantum numbers related to isospin, hypercharge, and strangeness is said to have been found on the way to lunch by Murray Gell- Mann ..."

3. Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade: P(ND)^2 : Workshop by E. Bauge, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2006)
"... S. Chiba 4 Abstract An isospin dependent coupled channel optical model potential containing a dispersive term including nonlocal contribution is used to ..."

4. Physics of More Than 11 Years of COSY-11 by Przerwa, Joanna, Grzonka, Dieter, Klaja, Pawel, Moskal, Pawel, Oelert, Walter (2007)
"This process may occur only if the isospin of the colliding nucleons is equal to zero. Thus the knowledge of the total cross section for this reaction will ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Here a neutral (/ = 0) meson is viewed as a scalar in "isospin space." A trio of positive, neutral, and negative mesons (/ = 1 ) is viewed as a vector in ..."

6. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"Moreover. it should be pointed out that, as for light- and medium-mass isotopes. where neutrons and protons occupy the same major shells. isospin is a ..."

7. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"A name for the set of quantum numbers related to isospin, hypercharge, and strangeness is said to have been found on the way to lunch by Murray Gell- Mann ..."

8. Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade: P(ND)^2 : Workshop by E. Bauge, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2006)
"... S. Chiba 4 Abstract An isospin dependent coupled channel optical model potential containing a dispersive term including nonlocal contribution is used to ..."

9. Physics of More Than 11 Years of COSY-11 by Przerwa, Joanna, Grzonka, Dieter, Klaja, Pawel, Moskal, Pawel, Oelert, Walter (2007)
"This process may occur only if the isospin of the colliding nucleons is equal to zero. Thus the knowledge of the total cross section for this reaction will ..."

10. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Here a neutral (/ = 0) meson is viewed as a scalar in "isospin space." A trio of positive, neutral, and negative mesons (/ = 1 ) is viewed as a vector in ..."

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