How to Use baryon in a Sentence

baryon

noun
  • On the smallest scales, the strong nuclear force binds quarks into bound structures, three-at-a-time, known as baryons.
    — Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The most famous baryons are protons and neutrons, which make up everyday matter.
    — Fox News, 11 July 2017
  • Three quarks are called a baryon, and consist of a red, blue, and green quark, or an antired, antigreen, and antiblue quark.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • In other words, the ratio of baryons, which include protons and neutrons, to photons, which light is made of, would have to shrink.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
  • That suggests each pentaquark is just a baryon bound to a meson, with a tiny bit of mass taken up in binding energy.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • But the rest of the universe is made of cosmic baryons, or ordinary matter, which can be found in tiny particles called protons and neutrons.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
  • The heavier pentaquarks have masses just below the sum of the same baryon and a related meson with extra internal energy.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • Discovering five versions of a particle all at once is completely unprecedented and could reveal a lot about omega baryons and the nature of quarks.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Magazines, screens, and air are made of atoms, and atoms are largely made of protons and neutrons – which are the most familiar examples of the three-quark bundles that physicists call baryons.
    — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Dark matter makes up about 27 percent of the universe, but scientists know little about it except that it’s not made of normal matter particles called baryons.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • But by corralling huge numbers of baryons together, the people behind Super-Kamiokande hoped to spot one decaying much sooner, in just a few years.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Those ripples, or bubbles, are known as baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Some of it would be in the form of baryons, meaning protons and neutrons—the stuff of you, me and our laptops, as well as of planets, galaxies and everything else accessible to telescopes.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The lightest pentaquark has a mass just below the sum of a particular baryon and meson that together contain the correct quark ingredients.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
  • Despite their similarities, the newfound particle is even less stable than the other heavy baryon, with a lifetime predicted to be about six times shorter.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The previous heavy baryon was discovered in 2017, also at LHCb, and consists of two charm quarks and an up quark.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Astronomers expected these hot baryons to conform to a cosmic superstructure, one made of invisible dark matter, that spanned the immense voids between galaxies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2018
  • In the new experiment, scientists observed that baryons made of an up quark, a down quark and one of their more exotic cousins called a beauty quark decay more often than baryons made of the antimatter versions of those same three quarks.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 July 2025
  • By isolating particles flowing together, the team confirmed that, just as is seen in heavy collisions, these lighter collisions give rise to baryons with stronger flow and mesons with weaker flow at intermediate speeds.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Their new simulation method models notional dark matter interactions with particles called baryons—that is, mainly protons and neutrons—in and around a Milky Way–scale galaxy.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
  • By a conventional Standard Model process, the antilepton excess would then have cascaded into a one-part-per-billion excess of baryons (protons and neutrons) over antibaryons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2013
  • Poplawski explained how there are also unknown processes that violate the balance between a family of particles called baryons and their antimatter counterparts, the antibaryons.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That's because baryons would have disappeared since the Big Bang, as they are converted to dark energy droplets, thus allowing neutrinos to make a contribution in line with measurements of their abundance.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • While small, this difference is statistically significant enough to be the first observation of differences in behavior between baryon and antibaryon decays.
    — William Barter, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • However, factoring in the consumption of baryons in the form of dead star matter and their conversion to dark energy in the CCBH hypothesis eliminates this non-physical mass headache.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2025

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