baryon
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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
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All quarks carry an additive, conserved quantum number called a baryon number (B), which is + 1 3 for quarks and − 1 3 for antiquarks.
A similar mysterious situation was with the Δ ++ baryon ; in the quark model, it is composed of three up quarks with parallel spins.
Besides this spin characteristic, fermions have another specific property: they possess conserved baryon or lepton quantum numbers.
For resonances with 3 2 isospin, see the Delta baryon article.
Cosmology, Steven Weinberg, Oxford University Press, 2008 Confirmatory evidence has been found in baryon acoustic oscillations and other new results about the clustering of galaxies.
Each baryon has a corresponding antiparticle (antibaryon) where quarks are replaced by their corresponding antiquarks.