Physics A-Level
Hadrons
What Hadrons means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Particles made of quarks and antiquarks, divided into baryons, which contain three quarks, and mesons, which contain a quark and an antiquark.
Particles that interact via the strong nuclear force and are composite particles made of quarks.
Topics that use Hadrons
- Classification of particles (AQA A-Level)
- Fundamental particles (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Baryons
- Anti-quark charge reversal
- Baryon number
- Baryon number and strangeness
- Baryons and antibaryons
- Charge from quark content
- Conservation laws
- Conservation of baryon number
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