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- noun physics A
nuclear complex composed of aproton , aneutron and anyhyperon
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In a hypertriton, one of the neutrons is replaced by a particle called a lambda hyperon, with one "up," one "down" and one "strange" quark.
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A hypertriton was observed for a fleeting moment in a lab experiment about 50 years ago, Calderon said.
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The antihypertriton, as its name suggests, is a hypertriton in which the up, down and strange quarks are replaced with antimatter equivalents (anti-up, anti-down and anti-strange quarks).
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Analysis of the hypertriton data was by Jinhui Chen, Kent State University (currently at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics).
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M Cyclotron Institute, along with numerous researchers from universities and labs all over the world, have created the anti-hypertriton - a never-before-seen particle - by colliding gold nuclei at extremely high speeds.
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