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In particle physics, a hyperon is any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm, bottom, or top quark. [1] This form of matter may exist in a stable form within the core of some neutron stars. [2] Hyperons are sometimes generically represented by the symbol Y. [3]
The first research into hyperons happened in the 1950s and spurred physicists on to the creation of an organized classification of particles.
The term was coined by French physicist Louis Leprince-Ringuet in 1953, [4] [5] and announced for the first time at the cosmic ray conference at Bagnères de Bigorre in July of that year, agreed upon by Leprince-Ringuet, Bruno Rossi, C.F. Powell, William B. Fretter and Bernard Peters. [6]
Today, research in this area is carried out on data taken at many facilities around the world, including CERN, Fermilab, SLAC, JLAB, Brookhaven National Laboratory, KEK, GSI and others. Physics topics include searches for CP violation, measurements of spin, studies of excited states (commonly referred to as spectroscopy), and hunts for exotic forms such as pentaquarks and dibaryons.
Being baryons, all hyperons are fermions. That is, they have half-integer spin and obey Fermi–Dirac statistics. Hyperons all interact via the strong nuclear force, making them types of hadron. They are composed of three light quarks, at least one of which is a strange quark, which makes them strange baryons.
Excited hyperon resonances and ground-state hyperons with a '*' included in their notation decay via the strong interaction. For Ω⁻ as well as the lighter hyperons this decay mode is not possible given the particle masses and the conservation of flavor and isospin necessary in strong interactions. Instead, these decay weakly with non-conserved parity. An exception to this is the Σ⁰ which decays electromagnetically into Λ on account of carrying the same flavor quantum numbers. The type of interaction through which these decays occur determine the average lifetime, which is why weakly decaying hyperons are significantly more long-lived than those that decay through strong or electromagnetic interactions. [7]
| Particle | Symbol | Makeup | Rest mass (MeV/ c 2) | Isospin, I | Spin, parity, J P | Q (e) | S | C | B' | Mean lifetime (s) | Commonly decays to |
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| Lambda [8] | Λ0 | u d s | 1 115.683(6) | 0 | 1⁄2+ | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 2.60×10−10 [9] | p+ + π− or n0 + π0 |
| Lambda resonance [10] | Λ (1405) | u d s | 1 405.1(+1.3 -1.0) | 0 | 1⁄2− | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | Σ + π | |
| Lambda resonance [11] | Λ (1520) | u d s | 1 519(1) | 0 | 3⁄2− | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | N + K or Σ + π or Λ + 2 π | |
| Sigma [12] | Σ+ | u u s | 1 189.37(7) | 1 | 1⁄2+ | +1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | (8.018±0.026)×10−11 | p+ + π0 or n0 + π+ |
| Sigma [13] | Σ0 | u d s | 1 192.642(24) | 1 | 1⁄2+ | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | (7.4±0.7)×10−20 | Λ0 + γ |
| Sigma [14] | Σ− | d d s | 1 197.449(30) | 1 | 1⁄2+ | −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | (1.479±0.011)×10−10 | n0 + π− |
| Sigma resonance [15] | Σ∗+ (1385) | u u s | 1 382.8(4) | 1 | 3⁄2+ | +1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | Λ + π or Σ + π | |
| Sigma resonance [15] | Σ∗0 (1385) | u d s | 1 383.7±1.0 | 1 | 3⁄2+ | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | Λ + π or Σ + π | |
| Sigma resonance [15] | Σ∗− (1385) | d d s | 1 387.2(5) | 1 | 3⁄2+ | −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | Λ + π or Σ + π | |
| Xi [16] | Ξ0 | u s s | 1 314.86(20) | 1⁄2 | 1⁄2+ | 0 | −2 | 0 | 0 | (2.90±0.09)×10−10 | Λ0 + π0 |
| Xi [17] | Ξ− | d s s | 1 321.71(7) | 1⁄2 | 1⁄2+ | −1 | −2 | 0 | 0 | (1.639±0.015)×10−10 | Λ0 + π− |
| Xi resonance [18] | Ξ∗0 (1530) | u s s | 1 531.80(32) | 1⁄2 | 3⁄2+ | 0 | −2 | 0 | 0 | Ξ + π | |
| Xi resonance [18] | Ξ∗− (1530) | d s s | 1 535.0(6) | 1⁄2 | 3⁄2+ | −1 | −2 | 0 | 0 | Ξ + π | |
| Omega [19] | Ω− | s s s | 1 672.45(29) | 0 | 3⁄2+ | −1 | −3 | 0 | 0 | (8.21±0.11)×10−11 | Λ0 + K− or Ξ0 + π− or Ξ− + π0 |
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Ω
and are either neutral or have a +2, +1 or −1 elementary charge. They are baryons containing no up or down quarks. Omega baryons containing top quarks are not expected to be observed. This is because the Standard Model predicts the mean lifetime of top quarks to be roughly 5×10−25 s, which is about a twentieth of the timescale for strong interactions, and therefore that they do not form hadrons.
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K
, is any of a group of four mesons distinguished by a quantum number called strangeness. In the quark model they are understood to be bound states of a strange quark and an up or down antiquark.
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