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Antiparticle vs Antinucleon - What's the difference?

antiparticle | antinucleon |

As nouns the difference between antiparticle and antinucleon

is that antiparticle is (particle) a subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign while antinucleon is (physics) the antiparticle of a nucleon.

antiparticle

English

Noun

(wikipedia antiparticle) (en noun)
  • (particle) A subatomic particle corresponding to another particle with the same mass, spin and mean lifetime but with charge, parity, strangeness and other quantum numbers flipped in sign.

    • See also

    * self-conjugate

    antinucleon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) The antiparticle of a nucleon