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The Verified Answer for Accelerator particles is:
- MESONS
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- IONS
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼This is all quite simple. Since most of the smallest components of matter are off doing their own thing (you could call them “at leisure,” really), Ernest Lawrence and M. Stanley Livingston built a “particle accelerator” in 1931 to excite every one of them to stand up and be counted. MESONS, which are so scattered and neurotic they don’t even exist for more than a few nano-ticks in time, were discovered and further broken down, each into a quark and an ANTIQUARK, sort of yin and yang, and therefore even the tiniest, most fleeting entities we can find consist of two opposing forces that, in battling for their own existence, keep everything from dissipating into a vast nothingness.