Question

What are baryons and leptons?How are they both conserved?

Answer 1

baryons subatomic particle, such as a nucleon or hyperon, that has a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton.




leptons a subatomic particle, such as an electron, muon, or neutrino, which does not take part in the strong interaction.

the observation of the following two decay processes leads to the conclusion that there is a separate lepton number for muons which must also be conserved. ... In order for both electron lepton number and muon lepton number to be conserved, then the other particles must be an electron anti-neutrino and a muon neutrino.