In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours...
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Strangeness (redirect from Strangeness (particle physics))
In particle physics, strangeness (symbol S) is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in strong and...
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Isospin (category Flavour (particle physics))
In nuclear physics and particle physics, isospin (I) is a quantum number related to the up- and down quark content of the particle. Isospin is also known...
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Lepton number (category Flavour (particle physics))
In particle physics, lepton number (historically also called lepton charge) is a conserved quantum number representing the difference between the number...
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In particle physics, a generation or family is a division of the elementary particles. Between generations, particles differ by their flavour quantum number...
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In physics, the eightfold way is an organizational scheme for a class of subatomic particles known as hadrons that led to the development of the quark...
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Baryon number (category Flavour (particle physics))
In particle physics, the baryon number (B) is an additive quantum number of a system. It is defined as B = 1 3 ( n q − n q ¯ ) , {\displaystyle B={\frac...
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Bottomness (category Flavour (particle physics))
In physics, bottomness (symbol B′; using a prime as plain B is used already for baryon number) or beauty is a flavour quantum number reflecting the difference...
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unparticle physics and its potential impact on particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, CP violation, lepton flavour violation, muon decay, neutrino oscillations...
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an interesting test of quantum electrodynamics. Flavour (particle physics) Generation (particle physics) Koide formula Lepton Since the tauonic lepton...
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B − L (category Flavour (particle physics))
In particle physics, B − L (pronounced "bee minus ell") is a quantum number which is the difference between the baryon number (B) and the lepton number...
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In particle physics, a massless particle is an elementary particle whose invariant mass is zero. At present the only confirmed massless particle is the...
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Topness (category Flavour (particle physics))
another flavour of quark (usually to a bottom quark). Anchordoqui, L.; Halzen, F. (2009). "Lessons in Particle Physics". arXiv:0906.1271 [physics.ed-ph]...
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Weak isospin (category Flavour (particle physics))
In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the electrically charged part of the weak interaction: Particles with half-integer weak...
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2015. Retrieved 7 March 2011. Navas, S.; et al. (Particle Data Group) (2024). "Review of Particle Physics". Physical Review D. 110 (3): 1–708. Abdalla, Elcio;...
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Charm (quantum number) (category Flavour (particle physics))
a flavour quantum number representing the difference between the number of charm quarks (c) and charm antiquarks (c) that are present in a particle: C...
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Sigma baryon (redirect from Sigma particle)
subatomic hadron particles which have two quarks from the first flavour generation (up and / or down quarks), and a third quark from a higher flavour generation...
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W and Z bosons (redirect from W particle)
In particle physics, the W and Z bosons are vector bosons that are together known as the weak bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons...
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Gell-Mann recognized the group structure of elementary particle classification introducing the flavour SU(3) and strangeness as a new quantum number. Strange...
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Electric charge (category Flavour (particle physics))
the four fundamental interactions in physics. The study of photon-mediated interactions among charged particles is called quantum electrodynamics. The...
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research in both theoretical and experimental physics. Despite being the most successful theory of particle physics to date, the Standard Model is not perfect...
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Nucleon (redirect from Nuclear particle)
interactions.) Nucleons sit at the boundary where particle physics and nuclear physics overlap. Particle physics, particularly quantum chromodynamics, provides...
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Lambda baryon (redirect from Lambda particle)
a family of subatomic hadron particles containing one up quark, one down quark, and a third quark from a higher flavour generation, in a combination where...
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In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, weak force or the weak nuclear force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions...
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In physics, a subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, a subatomic particle can be...
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Meson (redirect from Meson physics)
In particle physics, a meson (/ˈmiːzɒn, ˈmɛzɒn/) is a type of hadronic subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually...
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Boson (redirect from Bose particle)
In particle physics, a boson (/ˈboʊzɒn/ /ˈboʊsɒn/) is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2, ...). Bosons form...
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modern physics. Richard Feynman said, "The fact that the electromagnetic field can possess momentum and energy makes it very real, and [...] a particle makes...
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Vacuum state and vacuum QED vacuum of quantum electrodynamics Flavour (particle physics) Top quark condensate Goldstone boson Higgs mechanism Woloshyn...
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