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hyperon
A baryon whose strangeness is nonzero; in other words, a baryon that contains at least one strange quark. The lightest hyperon is the A particle, with strangeness -1 and quark composition uds (up-down-strange). The name "hyperon" comes from the Greek iper meaning "above" or "beyond" and was coined in 1953 to describe heavy unstable baryons. All hyperons are shortlived.
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