adjective
- of, relating to, or composed of hadrons (subatomic particles made of quarks, such as protons and neutrons)
Usage: physics; technical
Examples
- Hadronic matter makes up the nucleus of an atom.
- The collision produced hadronic jets that were detected by the particle detector.
- Physicists study hadronic interactions to understand the strong nuclear force.
- Hadronic decay is one way that unstable particles break down.
- The experiment measured hadronic cross-sections at high energies.