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baryon number
noun
A quantum number related to the difference between the numbers of quarks and antiquarks in a system of subatomic particles
Exact(46)
² Strictly, the baryon number plus the lepton number number.
Baryons are characterized by a baryon number, B, of 1. Their antiparticles, called antibaryons, have a baryon number of −1.
Conservation of baryon number explains the apparent stability of the proton.
Developments in particle physics during the 1970s, however, suggested that the net baryon number may in fact undergo alteration.
For example, there may be additional forces coupled to baryon number or spin.
Quarks, for example, have a property called baryon number, as do protons, neutrons, nuclei, and unstable quark composites.
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Antiquarks and antileptons have correspondingly negative values for lepton and baryon numbers.
A failure of baryon-number conservation would exhibit itself, for instance, by a proton decaying into lighter non-baryonic particles.
Holding 1 million ton water target being about 20 times larger than the Super-Kamiokande, the detector will extend the sensitivity to search for baryon-number-violated proton (and bound neutron) decays by one order of magnitude or more to test various grand unified theories.
There must be baryon-number-violating interactions.
We'd need to discover some sort of new physics at the electroweak scale, either in terms of extra C- and CP-violation or additional baryon-number-violating interactions, to explain the Universe we know we have today.
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