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heavy particle

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heavy particle
n.
See baryon.

heavy particle
A subatomic particle with relatively high mass, especially a baryon.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.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
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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As an initial step, the TBMF proceeds with a plan of establishing the Tokyo Bay Medical Frontier Center, a shared facility that will provide the cutting-edge cancer treatments such as heavy particle therapy and immune cell therapy.
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