BRAINCAKEBaryons and Mesons
Baryons are hadrons created through the strong interaction
They consist of protons and other hadrons that decay into protons (e.g. neutrons)
They are made of three quarks (qqq).
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Key terms in this lesson
- Strong nuclear force
- The short-range attractive force between nucleons that overcomes the electrostatic repulsion between protons and holds the nucleus together, becoming repulsive at very short separations.
- Hadron
- A particle made up of quarks that interacts through the strong interaction; hadrons are divided into baryons and mesons.
- Quark
- A fundamental particle that combines with other quarks to make up hadrons; at A-level, up, down and strange quarks are considered.
- Pion
- A meson, made of a quark-antiquark pair, that may be positively charged, negatively charged or neutral; produced through the strong interaction and decaying through the weak interaction.
More in Quarks and Leptons
- Classifying Particles and Antiparticles
- Leptons
- Hadrons
- Particle Colliders and Energy
- Lepton Collisions
- Lepton Rules
- Neutrinos
- Strangeness
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