All baryons eventually decay into protons, is this the same with anti-bayrons?

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apparently all baryons eventually decay into protons, so I was just curious to know if this was also true of anti-baryons?
 
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The lightest anti-baryon is the antiproton, so any anti-baryon will eventually decay to an antiproton.

Antiprotons are stable against decay (so far as we know), just like protons. However, sooner or later (probably sooner) an antiproton will encounter a proton and the two will annihilate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation#Proton-antiproton_annihilation
 
jtbell said:
The lightest anti-baryon is the antiproton, so any anti-baryon will eventually decay to an antiproton.

Antiprotons are stable against decay (so far as we know), just like protons. However, sooner or later (probably sooner) an antiproton will encounter a proton and the two will annihilate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation#Proton-antiproton_annihilation

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