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That’s not the full explanation; the antiproton is stable (or, is as stable as the proton).

It’s that the net baryon number is 0 and that the flavor ‘quantum numbers’ aren’t conserved by the weak force. If you could turn off the weak force, this cc ubar dbar tetraquark would be absolutely stable.



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