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Antineutron
The antineutron is the antiparticle of the neutron, with the same mass and no electric charge but antiquarks inside, discovered in 1956 at the Bevatron in Berkeley.
Antiproton
The antiproton is the proton's antimatter counterpart, a negatively charged particle first observed in 1955 at Berkeley, for which Segrè and Chamberlain won the 1959 Nobel Prize.
Delta baryon
Delta baryons are a family of excited non-strange baryons with isospin 3/2, the spin-3/2 partners of the nucleon; the Δ(1232) has four charge states and decays strongly to a nucleon and a pion.
Neutron
The neutron is an electrically neutral subatomic particle that, together with the proton, makes up atomic nuclei, and decays outside them; it was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932.
Nucleon
A nucleon is a proton or neutron, the two baryons that make up atomic nuclei, each built from three quarks and treated as two states of one particle.
Proton
The proton is a stable subatomic particle with charge +1, made of two up quarks and one down quark, and forms the nucleus of ordinary hydrogen.
Structure functions
Structure functions, such as F₁ and F₂, are functions of x and Q² that describe the partonic structure of hadrons as measured in deep inelastic scattering.