lambda hyperon

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lambda hyperon - an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1

lambda particle

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

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These particles, which the discoverers have named U.sup.+, U[deg.] and U.sup.-, decay into a combination of a lambda hyperon, an antiproton and pions.

Unconventional physics: 'quite crazy' after all these years

(Mathematicians spend their time playing with triangles and hexagons; physicists spend their time playing with lambda hyperons and sigma hyperons.)

'Ptarmigans wheeling over the gorse'; surely such things don't happen with mathematics ... but, au contraire, they do

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