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Sigma particle


The Sigma baryons are a family of subatomic hadron particles which have a +2, +1 or −1 elementary charge or are neutral. They are baryons containing three quarks: two up and/or down quarks, and one third quark, which can be either a strange (symbols
Σ+
,
Σ0
,
Σ
), a charm (symbols
Σ++
c
,
Σ+
c
,
Σ0
c
), a bottom (symbols
Σ+
b
,
Σ0
b
,
Σ
b
) or a top (symbols
Σ++
t
,
Σ+
t
,
Σ0
t
) quark. However, the top Sigmas are not expected to be observed as the Standard Model predicts the mean lifetime of top quarks to be roughly 5×10−25 s. This is about 20 times shorter than the timescale for strong interactions, and therefore it does not form hadrons.


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