proton decay

hypothetical decay process of a nucleon (proton or neutron) into non-nucleons (anything else)
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proton decay

Summary

proton decay is a hypothesis[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of hypothesis entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (559 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • proton decay's instance of is recorded as hypothesis[3].
  • proton decay's instance of is recorded as hypothetical entity[4].
  • proton decay's subclass of is recorded as particle decay[5].
  • proton decay's Commons category is recorded as Proton decay[6].
  • proton decay's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/060mz[7].
  • proton decay's facet of is recorded as nucleon[8].
  • proton decay's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/proton-decay[9].
  • proton decay's defining formula is recorded as \mathrm p^+\to\mathrm e^++\pi^0[10].
  • proton decay's Quora topic ID is recorded as Proton-Decay[11].
  • proton decay's nLab ID is recorded as proton decay[12].
  • proton decay's schematic is recorded as Proton decay GUT simple.svg[13].
  • proton decay's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[14].
  • proton decay's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 137305063[15].
  • proton decay's in defining formula is recorded as \mathrm p^+[16].
  • proton decay's in defining formula is recorded as \mathrm e^+[17].
  • proton decay's in defining formula is recorded as \pi^0[18].
  • proton decay's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C137305063[19].
  • proton decay's WikiKids ID is recorded as Protonverval[20].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include hypothesis[3] and hypothetical entity[4].

Why It Matters

proton decay ranks in the top 10% of hypothesis entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (559 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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