What is the difference in quark model of a meson and a baryon?

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What is the difference in quark model of a meson and a baryon?

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Mesons are made of a valence quark−antiquark pair (thus have a baryon number of 0), while baryons are made of three quarks (thus have a baryon number of 1).

Remya Thekkuvettil answered Oct 15, 2021

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