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A baryon number is a quantum number related to the difference between the numbers of quarks and antiquarks in a system of subatomic particles.
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What is a baryon?
A baryon is a variety of heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons.
What hold 3 quarks together?
There quarks are held together to make up protons and neutrons. They are held together by the strong force (one of the four fundamental forces.) The strong force is created by the quarks exchanging force carrier particles called gluons.
Does neutrino mean neutron?
Definatly not! A Neutron is a kind of Baryon (a type of Hadron) made up of the subatomic particles: Up quark, Down quark and Electrons. Now a Neutrino is different, there are three different types. There are Electron Neutrinoes, Muon Neutrinoes, and Tau Neutrinoes. Neutrinos are a type of Lepton, for every Neutrino there is a equivalent non-neutrino. For example, There is an Electron and an Electron Neutrino. So to conclude Neutrino does not mean Neutron, instead it is describing a type of Lepton. This should answer the Question.
What is the relationship between a quark and a subatomic particle?
The atom is made up of several subatomic particles.The atom is made up of several subatomic particles.The atom is made up of several subatomic particles.The atom is made up of several subatomic particles.
How can you determine the number of neutrons in an isotope?
One doesn't generally "calculate" the number of neutrons. The number of neutrons in an atom is always equal to the number of protons, and the number of protons can be found on the Periodic Table of Elements, which can easily be found on the internet or in a science textbook.
What is the baryon number of an antiproton?
It is -1 as it the opposite of the baryon number of a proton.
What is the quark structure of a baryon?
A baryon always had three quarks. If it hasn't, then it is not a baryon.
Can one neutron can split into an alpha particle and a beta particle?
No, this is not possible. There are multiple reasons one could give for this. For example electric charge is not conserved; the neutron has no charge, the beta particle has a charge of -1 (times the positive elementary charge) and the alpha particle has a charge of +2. Therefore you go from 0 charge to (-1 + 2 = 1) +1 charge. You could fix this by making two beta particles (but it would still not work for the reasons below). Every such reaction must conserve baryon number. A baryon is an object consisting of three quarks. The neutron is a baryon and therefore has baryon number +1. The alpha particle consists of two neutrons and two protons (the proton is also a baryon) so it has baryon number +4. The beta particle has baryon number 0. So the reaction n -> alpha + beta would increase the total baryon number by (+4 - 1 = 3) 3 which is not allowed. To fix this one would need, for example, to add three baryons to the initial state. The lepton number is also not conserved by this reaction. Protons and neutrons both have lepton number 0, but the beta particle has lepton number +1. Therefore this reaction would go from lepton number 0 to +1, which is also not allowed. This could be easily fixed by adding an antielectron-neutrino to the final state. A possible reaction that would fix everything would be something like: 4n -> alpha + 2 beta + 2 antielectron-neutrinos
What is an electronic that starts with b?
Baryon
What is a baryon acoustic oscillation?
A baryon acoustic oscillation is one of the regular periodic fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter of the universe.
What is a baryon?
A baryon is a variety of heavy subatomic particle created by the binding of quarks by gluons.
What is a xi baryon?
A xi baryon is a subatomic hadron particle comprising three quarks, one up or down quark, and two heavier quarks.
Why a free neutron does not decay into electron and positron?
What makes you think that it should decay precisely into an electron and a positron, rather than some other option?Anyway, in any such particle conversion, certain quantities must be conserved. Some of these conservation laws are strict (no exceptions are known to exist), some not (now and then there is an exception). For the proposed reaction, you should consider the following conservation laws:Conservation of mass/energy - the electron and the positron have much less mass than the neutron. This would not pose a significant problem, since they could move away from each other at a high speed - the missing mass/energy would be present in the form of kinetic energy. This indeed happens in some particle reactions.Conservation of momentu - no problem here, either.Conservation of electric charge - no problem here.Conservation of baryon number - this would NOT be conserved in your proposed reaction. Please note that this is not a strict conservation law; there are known violations. However, violating the baryon number in a particle conversion is quite uncommon. In this case, the neutron has a baryon number of +1, the proton (one of the decay products of the actual decay) also has a baryon number of +1, while electron + positron would have a baryon number of 0.
What is an antiboson?
An antiboson is an antiparticle of a boson.
What does hypercharged mean?
1. A quantum number assigned to baryons and mesons, equal to b + s where b is the baryon and s is the strangeness. 2. A quantum number equal to b + s+ c where the c is the charm.
What is a particle with three quarks?
A baryon: Protons, neutrons, and other odd combinations of quarks.
What is a biquark?
A biquark is another name for a diquark - a hypothetical state of two quarks grouped inside a baryon.
