Baryons and Baryonic Matter
Baryons, taken from the Greek word for heavy, is a term that refers to a class of subatomic particles of high mass. With the discovery of the neutron in 1932, the neutron a...
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Lambda Particles
In the early 1950s, physicists were confronted by two varieties of strange particles. Although produced by the strong force, these particles lived longer than expected and seemed to d...
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Sigma Particle
In 1947 physicists observed new particles associated with cosmic ray events. The observed particle-streaming from these highly energetic cosmic events came in two types--a neutral parti...
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Baryons and Baryonic Matter