Baryons

Baryons All particles can be classified into two broad categories: leptons and hadrons. The main difference between the two is whether they interact through the strong interaction. Hadrons are particles that interact through all four fundamental interactions of nature, which include, strong, electromagnetic, weak, and gravitational interactions. Hadrons, the strongly interacting particles, can be further subdivided into two classes based on their internal composition: mesons and baryons. Originally, mesons and baryons were classified according to their masses. Baryons were heavier than mesons, and both were heavier than leptons. Today mesons and baryons are distinguished by their internal structure. Baryons have masses greater than the proton mass. All hadrons are composed of two or three fundamental particles, which came to be known as quarks. A quark is always combined with one or two other quarks. According to the original model proposed by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1963, there were three types of quarks indicated by the symbols u, d, and s. These were given the arbitrary names up, down, and sideways (now referred to as strange). Associated with each quark is an anti-quark, which are the antimatter equivalents of quarks, baryons, quarks, baryon, particles, mass, three, interactions, two, proton, model, quark, protons, charge, theory, standard, leptons, strong, particle, one, number, hadron, subatomic, spin, neutron, mesons, hyperons, hadrons, decays, color, weak, theories, single, physicists, neutrons, masses, made, heavier, energy, electron, electromagnetic, electric, each, due, describe, decay, charges, both, according