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Ξ
- (particle physics) Xi baryon; cascade particle
- 2017 August 20, Jon Butterworth, “Newly discovered particles, and what's in them”, in The Guardian[1] (in English):
- Those smaller particles are quarks in this case, meaning that the Ξcc++ is a hadron—the generic name for particles made of quarks.
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- Xi (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Etymology edit
From Phoenician 𐤎 (s, “śāmek”).
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Ξ • (X) (uppercase, lowercase ξ)
- The letter xi (ξεῖ), the tenth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet.
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Ξ • (X) (uppercase, lowercase ξ)
- The upper case letter xi (ξι), the 14th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.