Conservation of baryon number
What Conservation of baryon number means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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In any particle interaction or decay, the total baryon number before must equal the total baryon number after.
Baryon number is conserved because the number of quarks remains three in each nucleon.
Topics that use Conservation of baryon number
- Applications of conservation laws (AQA A-Level)
- Classification of particles (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Weak interaction
- Baryon number
- Baryons
- Baryons and antibaryons
- Collisions, decays and annihilation processes
- Conservation laws
- Conservation laws in particle physics
- Conservation of charge
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