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baryon

DEFINITIONS OF: baryon

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n any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1

Synonyms:
heavy particle
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hyperon
any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron
nucleon
a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus
antineutron
the antiparticle of a neutron
antiproton
an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of a proton
lambda hyperon, lambda particle
an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1
neutron
an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus
proton
a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
Type of:
fermion
any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
hadron
any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
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