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hy·per·on

 (hī′pə-rŏn′)
n.
Any of the baryons that are not nucleons, have a mass greater than that of the neutron, and are not stable.
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hyperon

(ˈhaɪpəˌrɒn)
n
(General Physics) physics any baryon that is not a nucleon
[C20: from hyper- + -on]
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hy•per•on

(ˈhaɪ pəˌrɒn)

n.
any baryon with nonzero strangeness, esp. one with a relatively long lifetime.
[1950–55; < Greek hypér + -on1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.hyperon - any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron
baryon, heavy particle - any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1
lambda hyperon, lambda particle - an electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1
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This dam was being built on the upper hyperon of Tarbela, on the Indus River with a power generation capacity of 4320 megawatts.
Moosbrugger, "Helicity analysis of semileptonic hyperon decays including lepton-mass effects," The European Physical Journal C, vol.
In this approach, the authors used a valence quark model in combination with SU(6) symmetry relations and data on hyperon decays to produce a range of predictions for effective PV meson-nucleon couplings consistent with the SM.
"Let's take Hyperon's series of romantic piano concertos.
These particles, which the discoverers have named U.sup.+, U[deg.] and U.sup.-, decay into a combination of a lambda hyperon, an antiproton and pions.
The UrQMD collision term contains 55 different baryon species (including nucleon, delta, and hyperon resonances with masses up to 2.25 GeV/[c.sup.2]) and 32 different meson species (including strange meson resonances), which are supplemented by their corresponding antiparticle and all isospin-projected states.
Schaffner-Bielich, "Implications of hyperon pairing for cooling of neutron stars," The Astrophysical Journal, vol.
Teryaev, "Femto-vortex sheets and hyperon polarization in heavy-ion collisions," Physical Review C, vol.
The study of A polarization relied on an efficient and robust [LAMBDA] hyperon identification algorithm and a high statistics sample.
As a particle with hidden strangeness, [phi] meson can be produced without an associated hyperon. Recently, in the reaction [gamma]p [right arrow] p[phi]([K.sub.S][K.sub.L]), a photoproduction cross-section of the [phi] meson in its neutral decay mode was measured by the CLAS Collaboration.
Such hyper-nuclei, called hyperons, can be created in laboratories but survive only for a short time.