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These particles are hadrons held together by the strong force. They all contain charm or strange quarks which are relatively heavy, and via the weak interaction
by chicX 4y ago
These particles are hadrons held together by the strong force. They all contain charm or strange quarks which are relatively heavy, and via the weak interactions, they can decay to hadrons containing light quarks. Because of the large mass difference between the charm and strange compared with the light quarks, it's unlikely that any of these will be stable.
Lone neutrons are unstable, they decay in about 15 minutes to lighter particles. They have only a few MeV mass difference to the stable final state (the proton + electron + anti-neutrino).
For comparison, these particles are 2000+ MeV above their ground states so they decay pretty quickly.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agosicne neutrons are stable in a neucleous, is it possible that there is any atom-like structure that is stable that contains at least one 'abnormal' particle, like a bozon, or any 'large' particle made of quarks that is not a proton or neutron?
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