baryon

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Hmm, I think that this is only a relative of the proton in that it too is a baryon (3 quarks).

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  1. noun Any of a family of subatomic particles, including the nucleon and hyperon multiplets, that participate in strong interactions, are composed of three quarks, and are generally more massive than mesons. Also called heavy particle. See Table at subatomic particle.

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  • It was always trapped with two other quarks in a baryon or with an antiquark in meson. —  Omni: January 1994
  • An antimatter baryon (or antibaryon) is an equivalent combination of three antimatter quarks ( q-bar q-bar q-bar ). —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • Such a configuration, which could produce an “illegal” S=1 baryon-like particle, was suggested some decades ago, and there have been many experimental searches for such particles. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • Its discovery follows the observation of the Cascade-b-minus baryon (Ξb -), first observed by the DZero experiment in —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • "The observation of the doubly strange b baryon is yet another triumph of the quark model," said DZero cospokesperson Dmitri Denisov, of Fermilab. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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  1. Greek barus, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots + -on1.
 

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