heavy particle

Noun
  1. Any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions;
    A hadron with a baryon number of +1 (synset 109237930)
    is a type of:
    • fermion - any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle
    • hadron - any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles
    subtypes:
    • hyperon - any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron
    • nucleon - a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus
    same as: baryon

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