College Physics (7th Edition)

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Chapter 30 - Nuclear Reactions and Elementary Particles - Learning Path Questions and Exercises - Conceptual Questions - Page 1029: 19

Answer

The stable leptons are the electron and all the three neutrinos $(v_{e},v_{mu},v_{tow})$ Of the hadrons, only the proton is truly stable. The neutron is much more stable than the other hadrons, but outside the nucleus it does decay in about 90s.

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The stable leptons are the electron and all the three neutrinos $(v_{e},v_{mu},v_{tow})$ Of the hadrons, only the proton is truly stable. The neutron is much more stable than the other hadrons, but outside the nucleus it does decay in about 90s.
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