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hadron comparison table

Subject is a kind of has quantum behavior has number of quark has spin obey has mass has definition has lifetime

baryon fermion Fermi-Dirac statistics 3 1/2 or 3/2 exclusion principle Heavy subatomic particle composed of 3 quarks.

charge multiplet hadron -has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press uncertainty principle -has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press A group of particles which differ in electrical charge but which are nearly identical in mass and other respects (such as lifetime and angular momentum) and which seem to experience identical nuclear forces. -has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press

meson boson Bose-Einstein statistics 2 0 uncertainty principle A strongly interacting particle consisting of a quark and an antiquark. Its mass is intermediate between that of a proton and an electron, which is believed to be responsible for the strong nuclear force. In contrast to the case of baryons or leptons, meson number is not conserved: like photons, mesons can be created or destroyed in arbitrary numbers.

Subject	is a kind of	has quantum behavior	has number of quark	has spin	obey	has mass	has definition	has lifetime
baryon	fermion	Fermi-Dirac statistics	3	1/2 or 3/2	exclusion principle		Heavy subatomic particle composed of 3 quarks.
charge multiplet	hadron			-has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press	uncertainty principle	-has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press	A group of particles which differ in electrical charge but which are nearly identical in mass and other respects (such as lifetime and angular momentum) and which seem to experience identical nuclear forces.	-has source: Hopkins, J. 1976 Glossary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago Press
meson	boson	Bose-Einstein statistics	2	0	uncertainty principle		A strongly interacting particle consisting of a quark and an antiquark. Its mass is intermediate between that of a proton and an electron, which is believed to be responsible for the strong nuclear force. In contrast to the case of baryons or leptons, meson number is not conserved: like photons, mesons can be created or destroyed in arbitrary numbers.

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