Introduction — what are hadrons, baryons, mesons, and quarks? Baryons and mesons comprise the two categories of particle physics’ hadrons. Hadrons are composite entities made of fundamental (elementary) particles called quarks that are held together by the strong force. (Nature’s other 3 forces are gravitation, electromagnetism, and the weak interaction.) Quarks come in 6 flavors. [...]
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