Baryon Number - Particles Not Formed of Quarks

Particles Not Formed of Quarks

Particles without any quarks have a baryon number of zero. Such particles include leptons (electron, muon, tau and their neutrinos) and gauge bosons (photon, W and Z bosons and gluons); or the hypothetical graviton.

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