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hyperon

In physics, any of a group of highly unstable elementary particles comprising all the baryons with the exception of protons and neutrons. They are all composed of three quarks. The lambda, xi, sigma, and omega particles are hyperons.
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In this approach, the authors used a valence quark model in combination with SU(6) symmetry relations and data on hyperon decays to produce a range of predictions for effective PV meson-nucleon couplings consistent with the SM.
Neutron measurements and the weak nucleon-nucleon interaction by Snow, W.M. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
decay into a combination of a lambda hyperon, an antiproton and pions.
Unconventional physics: 'quite crazy' after all these years by Thomsen, Dietrick E. / Science News
Mathematicians spend their time playing with triangles and hexagons; physicists spend their time playing with lambda hyperons and sigma hyperons.
'Ptarmigans wheeling over the gorse'; surely such things don't happen ... by Thomsen, Dietrick E. / Science News
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