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hyperon (plural hyperons)

(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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