the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
Examples of 'baryon number' in a sentence
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The crucial role of the chiral sector in providing baryon number has been unveiled.
A. Ferrando, V. Vento 1991, 'The baryonic spectrum of QCD2 in the chiral limit', Physics Letters Bhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037026939190031K. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Effects of a finite quark mass, non-zero baryon number density, and quantum statistics are discussed.
Maksymiuk Ewa 2018, 'Kinetic equations and anisotropic hydrodynamics for quark and gluon fluids', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818202079. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)