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The best known baryons are the proton and the neutron. These are collectively referred to as the nucleons. Our study of deep inelastic scattering has taught us that they are composed of three valence quarks, gluons and a “sea” and quark-antiquark pairs. The following treatment of the baryonic spectrum will, analogously to our description of the mesons, be centred around the concept of the constituent quark.
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Povh, B., Rith, K., Scholz, C., Zetsche, F. (1995). The Baryons. In: Particles and Nuclei. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97653-7_15
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