Physics A-Level
Baryon number and strangeness
What Baryon number and strangeness means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Baryon number and strangeness
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Reference: OCR
Anti-quarks carry opposite baryon number and strangeness to their quarks, and quark composition determines a hadron's baryon number and strangeness.
Topics that use Baryon number and strangeness
- Fundamental particles (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Anti-quark charge reversal
- Baryons
- Charge from quark content
- Conservation of charge
- Conservation of lepton number
- Equation balancing as a validity test
- Fractional quark charge
- Hadron classification
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