BARYON NUMBER


Meaning of BARYON NUMBER in English

Physics.

a quantum number assigned to elementary particles, baryons having baryon number 1, antibaryons -1, and all other observable particles 0; quarks have baryon number 1/3 and antiquarks -1/3. Cf. conservation of baryon number .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .