| The properties of charmed baryons are complicated but orderly and comprehensible. |
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| The simplest hadrons are therefore mesons made from a quark and antiquark pair, and baryons made of three quarks. |
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| Particle experiments in the fifties and sixties produced copious numbers of mesons and baryons named after letters in the Greek alphabet. |
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| In particular, we know that the number of baryons exceeds the number of anti-baryons. |
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| Gell-Mann distinguished baryons from mesons, the other hadron subclassification, by the number of quarks constituting their make-up. |
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| Most particles are either mesons, which contain a quark and an antiquark, or baryons, which comprise three quarks or three antiquarks. |
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| In general, baryons consist of three quarks and mesons of one quark and its corresponding antiquark. |
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| The law of the conservation of baryon number states that the total number of baryons must be the same before and after any subatomic event. |
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| The strong force is mediated by the gluon, which binds quarks together to form baryons and mesons and protons and neutrons together to form nuclei. |
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| The existence of quarks inside the mesons and baryons had to be deduced mathematically because free quarks have never been observed by particle physics. |
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| The lightest particles were named leptons, those with medium mass, mesons, heavier particles were called baryons, and the heaviest particles of all, hyperons. |
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| Thus, in the discussion carried out below, baryons contain four quarks and one antiquark. |
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| The results of our model show that the strange and non-strange baryons spectra are in general fairly well reproduced. |
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