baryon
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- noun
- /ˈbɛrɪˌɒn/
- Specialized
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barión
- The collisions in the particle accelerator produced various baryons, revealing insights about subatomic structure.
- baryons and mesons
- baryon with strangeness
- quarks make a baryon
Examples
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Well, that's just the fraction of baryons times the overall density.
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For example, baryons such as protons are not fundamental, as they are a result of a particular arrangement of quarks.
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Comparing H to H should provide the most sensitive test yet of a system involving both a baryon and a lepton.
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This counts up the total number of baryons present in my star, and sometimes it's called the baryonic mass.
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So the fewest quarks that could constitute an S = +1 baryon are five.
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A three-quark baryon couldn't possibly decay that way.
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The new baryon, which has been named T+, is being hailed as the first manifestly exotic hadron.
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The resulting nuclear abundances determine a key cosmological parameter, the average density of baryons in the universe.
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Naturally, the nuclear reaction rates in the primordial soup depend on the particle density, specifically the ratio of baryons to photons.
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The recently discovered positive-strangeness baryon near 1540 MeV is tentatively identified with the predicted T+(1530).
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Compounds
- Specialized
The difference in number between matter particles and antimatter particles that stays the same when particles react
How Composite
Surface Forms
Morphology
baryon = bary + on
The element 'bary-' is a Greek combining form (not a standalone English word) and '-on' is a technical particle suffix; the components are not accessible to average learners to derive the meaning.
Etymology
The word baryon comes from the Greek root bar- meaning 'heavy', the same root you see in barometer, and the ending -on meaning 'particle'. So a baryon is a 'heavy' particle like a proton or neutron, found inside atoms and made of three quarks.