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-THE [PROTON]-
(+1 electric charge)
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-THE [NEUTRON]-
(no electric charge)
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-as of [21 SEPTEMBER 2024]-
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-a baryon is a ‘composite sub-atomic particle’ made up of ‘3 quarks’-
*as distinct from ‘mesons’*
(which are composed of ‘1 quark’ + ‘1 anti-quark’)
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(‘baryons’ and ‘mesons’ belong to the ‘hadron family’ of ‘particles’, which are the ‘quark-based particles’)
(the name “baryon” comes from the ‘greek’ word for “heavy” (βαρύς, barys), because, at the time of their ‘naming’, most known ‘elementary particles’; had ‘lower masses’ than the ‘baryons’)
(as ‘quark-based particles’, ‘baryons’ participate in the ‘strong interaction’, whereas ‘leptons’, which are not ‘quark-based’, do not)
(the most familiar ‘baryons’ are the ‘protons’ and ‘neutrons’ that make up most of the ‘mass’ of the ‘visible matter’ in the ‘universe’)
(‘electrons’ (the other ‘major component’ of the ‘atom’) are ‘leptons’)
(each ‘baryon’ has a corresponding ‘anti-particle’ (aka ‘anti-baryon’) where ‘quarks’ are replaced by their corresponding ‘anti-quarks’)
(for example, a ‘proton’ is made of 2 ‘up quarks’ and 1 ‘down quark’)
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(and its corresponding ‘anti-particle’ (the ‘anti-proton’) is made of 2 ‘up anti-quarks’ + ‘1 down anti-quark’)
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