It is an exotic nucleus composed of two protons, one neutron, and one lambda particle (which is a type of hyperon -fermions with three quarks- containing a strange quark). This configuration distinguishes it from regular helium-4, which consists solely of protons and neutrons. The inclusion of a lambda particle introduces "strangeness" into the nucleus, making it a hypernucleus [1].
PS: By exotic here it I use the term as used by particle physicists which just mean not your ordinary stuff discussed in the "popular" working groups. Not the linguistic meaning of the word exotic.
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It is an exotic nucleus composed of two protons, one neutron, and one lambda particle (which is a type of hyperon -fermions with three quarks- containing a strange quark). This configuration distinguishes it from regular helium-4, which consists solely of protons and neutrons. The inclusion of a lambda particle introduces "strangeness" into the nucleus, making it a hypernucleus [1].
PS: By exotic here it I use the term as used by particle physicists which just mean not your ordinary stuff discussed in the "popular" working groups. Not the linguistic meaning of the word exotic.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus