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Why do we antisymmetrize the baryon's wavefunction but not the meson's?

A many-body wavefunction of identical fermions must be antisymmetrized because of fermionic statistics. We don’t antisymmetrize the meson wavefunction because it contains a quark and an antiquark, and ...
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