hyperon

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Noun

hyperon (plural hyperons)

1. (physics) Any baryon 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 Σ⁰-hyperon whose electromagnetic decay has an exceedingly short lifetime.

Translations

• French: hypéron
• Italian: iperone
• Russian: гиперо́н
• Spanish: hiperón

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