• 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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  • 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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  • Flavor (redirect from Flavour)
    perception. Flavour or flavor may also refer to: Flavors (programming language), an early object-oriented extension to Lisp Flavour (particle physics), a quantum...
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    an interesting test of quantum electrodynamics. Flavour (particle physics) Generation (particle physics) Koide formula Lepton Conversion with error propagation...
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  • Baryon number (category Flavour (particle physics))
    In particle physics, the baryon number is a strictly conserved additive quantum number of a system. It is defined as B = 1 3 ( n q − n q ¯ ) , {\displaystyle...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Charm (quantum number) (category Flavour (particle physics))
    flavour quantum number representing the difference between the number of charm quarks ( c ) and charm antiquarks ( c ) that are present in a particle:...
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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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  • 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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    Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
    particle physics assumed that neutrinos are massless. The experimentally established phenomenon of neutrino oscillation, which mixes neutrino flavour...
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    The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions...
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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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  • 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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  • unparticle physics and its potential impact on particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, CP violation, lepton flavour violation, muon decay, neutrino oscillations...
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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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    In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Baryon (redirect from Baryonic particles)
    In particle physics, a baryon is a type of composite subatomic particle, including the proton and the neutron, that contains an odd number of valence quarks...
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    nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin...
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    edifice of modern physics. "The fact that the electromagnetic field can possess momentum and energy makes it very real ... a particle makes a field, and...
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    Neutron (redirect from N particle)
    properties and interactions are described by nuclear physics. Protons and neutrons are not elementary particles; each is composed of three quarks. The chemical...
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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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