different between baryon vs hyperon

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (barús, “heavy”) +? -on. Coined by Dutch-American physicist Abraham Pais in 1953. Equivalent to baryo- +? -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???i?n/, /?bæ?i?n/

Noun

baryon (plural baryons)

1. (physics) A heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons; a hadron containing three quarks. Baryons have half-odd integral spin and are thus fermions. This category includes the common proton and neutron of the atomic nucleus.

Derived terms

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Anagrams

• Brayon, Raybon, barony

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed. Ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (barús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?.ri.?n/
• Hyphenation: ba?ry?on

Noun

baryon n (plural baryonen)

1. (physics) baryon [from 1960s]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.?j??/

Noun

baryon m (plural baryons)

1. (physics) baryon

Further reading

• “baryon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

baryon c

1. (physics) baryon

Declension

English

Noun

hyperon (plural hyperons)

1. (physics) Any baryon (or other subatomic particle) with a non-zero strangeness (i.e., whose composition includes one or more strange or anti-strange quarks).
   • 1965, Richard Henry Dalitz, Nuclear Interactions of the Hyperons, page 1,

     The known hyperons and their properties are listed in Table I of the companion lectures on Strange Particles. Most of these hyperons have lifetimes of the order of 10^-10 sec, with the exception of the ?⁰-hyperon whose electromagnetic decay has an exceedingly short lifetime.

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