Hyperon
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Not to be confused with Hyperion (disambiguation).
In particle physics, a hyperon is any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm, bottom, or top quark.[1] This form of matter may exist in a stable form within the core of some neutron stars.[2] Hyperons are sometimes generically represented by the symbol Y.[3]