missing mass spectrometer
missing mass spectrometer
[‚mis·iŋ ¦mas spek′träm·əd·ər] (particle physics)
An apparatus which measures the momentum of the recoil protons in a reaction such as π-+ p → p + (MM)-, in order to determine the distribution of masses of the MM system, without any detailed observations on this system.
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