Lambda Hyperon (Noun)
Meaning
An electrically neutral baryon with isotopic spin 1.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The discovery of the lambda hyperon in 1947 was a significant milestone in the study of subatomic particles.
- The lambda hyperon is composed of one up quark and two down quarks, along with a strange quark.
- Physicists studied the decays of the lambda hyperon to better understand the strong nuclear force.
- Researchers observed the lambda hyperon as a resonance in high-energy particle collisions.
- The lambda hyperon played an important role in the development of the Standard Model of particle physics.