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  2. Delta baryon - Wikipedia

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    The Δ baryons have a mass of about 1 232 MeV/c 2; their third component of isospin = ; and they are required to have an intrinsic spin of ⁠ 3 / 2 ⁠ or higher (half-integer units). Ordinary nucleons (symbol N, meaning either a proton or neutron ), by contrast, have a mass of about 939 MeV/ c 2 , and both intrinsic spin and isospin of ⁠ 1 ...

  3. Eightfold way (physics) - Wikipedia

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    By 1947, physicists believed that they had a good understanding of what the smallest bits of matter were. There were electrons, protons, neutrons, and photons (the components that make up the vast part of everyday experience such as visible matter and light) along with a handful of unstable (i.e., they undergo radioactive decay) exotic particles needed to explain cosmic rays observations such ...

  4. List of baryons - Wikipedia

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    Baryons and mesons are both hadrons, which are particles composed solely of quarks or both quarks and antiquarks. The term baryon is derived from the Greek "βαρύς" ( barys ), meaning "heavy", because, at the time of their naming, it was believed that baryons were characterized by having greater masses than other particles that were classed ...

  5. Hyperon - Wikipedia

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    Being baryons, all hyperons are fermions. That is, they have half-integer spin and obey Fermi–Dirac statistics. Hyperons all interact via the strong nuclear force, making them types of hadron. They are composed of three light quarks, at least one of which is a strange quark, which makes them strange baryons.

  6. Baryon - Wikipedia

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    In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle that contains an odd number of valence quarks, conventionally three. [1] Protons and neutrons are examples of baryons; because baryons are composed of quarks, they belong to the hadron family of particles.

  7. Hypernucleus - Wikipedia

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    Hypernuclei are named in terms of their atomic number and baryon number, as in normal nuclei, plus the hyperon(s) which are listed in a left subscript of the symbol, with the caveat that atomic number is interpreted as the total charge of the hypernucleus, including charged hyperons such as the xi minus (Ξ −) as well as protons.

  8. Exotic baryon - Wikipedia

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    So far, the only observed exotic baryons are the pentaquarks P c (4380) +, P c (4450) + discovered in 2015, [1] P c (4312) + in 2019 [2] and P Λ ψs (4338) 0 in 2022 by the LHCb collaboration. [3] Several types of exotic baryons that require physics beyond the Standard Model have been conjectured in order to explain specific experimental ...

  9. Baryon acoustic oscillations - Wikipedia

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    This overdense region contains dark matter, baryons and photons. The pressure results in spherical sound waves of both baryons and photons moving with a speed slightly over half the speed of light [8] [9] outwards from the overdensity. The dark matter interacts only gravitationally, and so it stays at the center of the sound wave, the origin of ...