baryon
noun
bary·on
ˈber-ē-ˌän 
ˈba-rē-
: any of a group of subatomic particles (such as nucleons) that are subject to the strong force and are composed of three quarks
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This sparked the missing baryon problem.
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Popular Science, 31 May 2020
So, a doubly-charmed baryon is a particle made from two charm quarks and one up quark.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
The discovery, reported in Nature this week, came during the course of an experiment aimed at making a doubly charmed baryon.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
Three quarks are called a baryon, and consist of a red, blue, and green quark, or an antired, antigreen, and antiblue quark.
—Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
Astronomers expected these hot baryons to conform to a cosmic superstructure, one made of invisible dark matter, that spanned the immense voids between galaxies.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2018
The lightest pentaquark has a mass just below the sum of a particular baryon and meson that together contain the correct quark ingredients.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
By a conventional Standard Model process, the antilepton excess would then have cascaded into a one-part-per-billion excess of baryons (protons and neutrons) over antibaryons.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2013
That suggests each pentaquark is just a baryon bound to a meson, with a tiny bit of mass taken up in binding energy.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
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Popular Science, 31 May 2020
So, a doubly-charmed baryon is a particle made from two charm quarks and one up quark.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
The discovery, reported in Nature this week, came during the course of an experiment aimed at making a doubly charmed baryon.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
Three quarks are called a baryon, and consist of a red, blue, and green quark, or an antired, antigreen, and antiblue quark.
—Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
Astronomers expected these hot baryons to conform to a cosmic superstructure, one made of invisible dark matter, that spanned the immense voids between galaxies.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2018
The lightest pentaquark has a mass just below the sum of a particular baryon and meson that together contain the correct quark ingredients.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
By a conventional Standard Model process, the antilepton excess would then have cascaded into a one-part-per-billion excess of baryons (protons and neutrons) over antibaryons.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2013
That suggests each pentaquark is just a baryon bound to a meson, with a tiny bit of mass taken up in binding energy.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
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Word History
Etymology
Greek barýs "heavy" + -on entry 2 — more at grieve
First Known Use
1953, in the meaning defined above
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