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heavy particle

See baryon.

heavy particle

A subatomic particle with relatively high mass, especially a baryon.

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heavy particle - any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1

baryon

fermion - any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle

hadron - any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles

hyperon - any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron

nucleon - a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus

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