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Strange quark

Index Strange quark

The strange quark or s quark (from its symbol, s) is the third lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle. [1]

96 relations: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, Antimo Palano, Asymmetry, B meson, Baryon, B–Bbar oscillation, Bottom quark, Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, Charm quark, Charmed baryons, Chiral symmetry breaking, Clebsch–Gordan coefficients, Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for SU(3), Color–flavor locking, Constituent quark, Current quark, David B. Kaplan, Degenerate matter, Diquark, Down quark, Elementary particle, Eta meson, European Muon Collaboration, Exotic atom, Exotic star, Fermilab, Fermion, Flavor-changing neutral current, Flavour (particle physics), Georgi–Jarlskog mass relation, GIM mechanism, Glossary of string theory, Grand Unified Theory, Heavy quark effective theory, Hypercharge, Hypernuclear Physics, Hypernuclear Spectroscopy, Hyperon, Hypertriton, Index of physics articles (S), J/psi meson, Jack Steinberger, Kaon, Koide formula, Lambda baryon, List of baryons, List of mesons, List of particles, Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model, Matter, ..., Neutron star, Nucleon, Omega baryon, Orders of magnitude (charge), Particle physics and representation theory, Pentaquark, Phi meson, Pion, QCD vacuum, Quantum chromodynamics, Quark, Quark model, Quark star, Quark, Strangeness and Charm (song), Quark–gluon plasma, Quarkonium, Safety of high-energy particle collision experiments, Sakata model, Sfermion, Shoichi Sakata, Sigma baryon, SPring-8, Standard Model, State of matter, Strange, Strange B meson, Strange matter, Strangelet, Strangeness, Strangeness production, Subatomic particle, Sulamith Goldhaber, T meson, Tetraquark, Timeline of particle discoveries, Timeline of physical chemistry, Timeline of quantum mechanics, Top quark, Up quark, Upsilon meson, W and Z bosons, Weak hypercharge, Weak interaction, Weak isospin, Xi baryon, 3 Quarks Daily. Expand index (46 more) »

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, also designated AMS-02, is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS).

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Antimo Palano

Antimo Palano is one of the Italian and international leading experts of hadron spectroscopy.

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Asymmetry

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection).

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B meson

In particle physics, B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up, down, strange or charm quark.

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Baryon

A baryon is a composite subatomic particle made up of three quarks (a triquark, as distinct from mesons, which are composed of one quark and one antiquark).

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B–Bbar oscillation

Neutral B meson oscillations (or – oscillations) is one of the manifestations of the neutral particle oscillation, a fundamental prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Bottom quark

The bottom quark or b quark, also known as the beauty quark, is a third-generation quark with a charge of − ''e''.

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Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, CKM matrix, quark mixing matrix, or KM matrix is a unitary matrix which contains information on the strength of flavour-changing weak decays.

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Charm quark

The charm quark, charmed quark or c quark (from its symbol, c) is the third most massive of all quarks, a type of elementary particle.

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Charmed baryons

Charmed baryons are a category of composite particles comprising all baryons made of at least one charm quark.

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Chiral symmetry breaking

In particle physics, chiral symmetry breaking is the spontaneous symmetry breaking of a chiral symmetry – usually by a gauge theory such as quantum chromodynamics, the quantum field theory of the strong interaction.

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Clebsch–Gordan coefficients

In physics, the Clebsch–Gordan (CG) coefficients are numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics.

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Clebsch–Gordan coefficients for SU(3)

In mathematical physics, Clebsch–Gordan coefficients are the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis.

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Color–flavor locking

Color–flavor locking (CFL) is a phenomenon that is expected to occur in ultra-high-density strange matter, a form of quark matter.

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Constituent quark

A constituent quark is a current quark with a notional "covering" induced by the renormalization group.

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Current quark

Current quarks (also called naked quarks or bare quarks) are defined as the constituent quark cores (constituent quarks with no covering) of a valence quark.

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David B. Kaplan

David B. Kaplan is an American physicist born in 1958.

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Degenerate matter

Degenerate matter is a highly dense state of matter in which particles must occupy high states of kinetic energy in order to satisfy the Pauli exclusion principle.

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Diquark

In particle physics, a diquark, or diquark correlation/clustering, is a hypothetical state of two quarks grouped inside a baryon (that consists of three quarks) (Lichtenberg 1982).

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Down quark

The down quark or d quark (symbol: d) is the second-lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a major constituent of matter.

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Elementary particle

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle with no substructure, thus not composed of other particles.

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Eta meson

The eta and eta prime meson are isosinglet mesons made of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks.

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European Muon Collaboration

The European Muon Collaboration (EMC) was formed in 1973 to study the interactions of high energy muons at CERN.

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Exotic atom

An exotic atom is an otherwise normal atom in which one or more sub-atomic particles have been replaced by other particles of the same charge.

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Exotic star

An exotic star is a hypothetical compact star composed of something other than electrons, protons, neutrons, or muons, and balanced against gravitational collapse by degeneracy pressure or other quantum properties.

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Fermilab

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.

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Fermion

In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics.

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Flavor-changing neutral current

In theoretical physics, flavor-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are hypothetical expressions that change the flavor of a fermion current without altering its electric charge.

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Flavour (particle physics)

In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle.

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Georgi–Jarlskog mass relation

In grand unified theories of the SU(5) or SO(10) type, there is a mass relation predicted between the electron and the down quark, the muon and the strange quark and the tau lepton and the bottom quark called the Georgi–Jarlskog mass relations.

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GIM mechanism

In quantum field theory, the GIM mechanism (or Glashow–Iliopoulos–Maiani mechanism) is the mechanism through which flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are suppressed in loop diagrams.

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Glossary of string theory

This page is a glossary of terms in string theory, including related areas such as supergravity, supersymmetry, and high energy physics.

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Grand Unified Theory

A Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is a model in particle physics in which, at high energy, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model which define the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, or forces, are merged into one single force.

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Heavy quark effective theory

In quantum chromodynamics, heavy quark effective theory (HQET) is an effective field theory describing the physics of heavy (that is, of mass far greater than the QCD scale) quarks.

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Hypercharge

In particle physics, the hypercharge (from '''hyper'''onic + charge) Y of a particle is related to the strong interaction, and is distinct from the similarly named weak hypercharge, which has an analogous role in the electroweak interaction.

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Hypernuclear Physics

Hypernuclear Physics is the science of hypernuclei, or nuclei which fall under the category of hypernucleus, and their constituents and properties.

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Hypernuclear Spectroscopy

Hypernuclear spectroscopy is the spectroscopy or measuring the energy spectra of a Hypernucleus, i.e. an atomic nucleus which has a hyperon or a strange quark embedded in it.

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Hyperon

In particle physics, a hyperon is any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm, bottom, or top quark.

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Hypertriton

A hypertriton is a type of hypernucleus, formed of a proton, a neutron and any hyperon.

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Index of physics articles (S)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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J/psi meson

The (J/psi) meson or psion is a subatomic particle, a flavor-neutral meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark.

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Jack Steinberger

Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is an American physicist who, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the muon neutrino.

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Kaon

In particle physics, a kaon, also called a K meson and denoted,The positively charged kaon used to be called τ+ and θ+, as it was supposed to be two different particles until the 1960s.

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Koide formula

The Koide formula is an unexplained empirical equation discovered by Yoshio Koide in 1981.

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Lambda baryon

The Lambda baryons are 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 the wavefunction changes sign upon the flavour of any two quarks being swapped (thus differing from a Sigma baryon).

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List of baryons

Baryons are composite particles made of three quarks, as opposed to mesons, which are composite particles made of one quark and one antiquark.

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List of mesons

Mesons are unstable subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark.

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List of particles

This article includes a list of the different types of atomic- and sub-atomic particles found or hypothesized to exist in the whole of the universe categorized by type.

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Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model

This article describes the mathematics of the Standard Model of particle physics, a gauge quantum field theory containing the internal symmetries of the unitary product group.

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Matter

In the classical physics observed in everyday life, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

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Neutron star

A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large star which before collapse had a total of between 10 and 29 solar masses.

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Nucleon

In chemistry and physics, a nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, considered in its role as a component of an atomic nucleus.

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Omega baryon

The omega baryons are a family of subatomic hadron (a baryon) particles that are represented by the symbol and are either neutral or have a +2, +1 or −1 elementary charge.

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Orders of magnitude (charge)

This page is a progressive and labeled list of the SI charge orders of magnitude, with certain examples appended to some list objects.

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Particle physics and representation theory

There is a natural connection between particle physics and representation theory, as first noted in the 1930s by Eugene Wigner.

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Pentaquark

A pentaquark is a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark bound together.

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Phi meson

In particle physics, the phi meson or meson is a vector meson formed of a strange quark and a strange antiquark.

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Pion

In particle physics, a pion (or a pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi) is any of three subatomic particles:,, and.

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QCD vacuum

Th Quantum Chromodynamic Vacuum or QCD vacuum is the vacuum state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

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Quantum chromodynamics

In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, the fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion.

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Quark

A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.

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Quark model

In particle physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons.

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Quark star

A quark star is a hypothetical type of compact exotic star, where extremely high temperature and pressure has forced nuclear particles to form a continuous state of matter that consists primarily of free quarks, which can be modeled using the Calabi–Yau manifold.

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Quark, Strangeness and Charm (song)

"Quark, Strangeness and Charm" is a 1977 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind, being the title track from the Quark, Strangeness and Charm album.

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Quark–gluon plasma

A quark–gluon plasma (QGP) or quark soup is a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which exists at extremely high temperature and/or density.

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Quarkonium

In particle physics, quarkonium (from quark and -onium, pl. quarkonia) designates a flavorless meson whose constituents are a heavy quark and its own antiquark, making it a neutral particle.

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Safety of high-energy particle collision experiments

The safety of high energy particle collisions was a topic of widespread discussion and topical interest during the time when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and later the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—currently the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator—were being constructed and commissioned.

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Sakata model

In particle physics, the Sakata model of hadrons was a precursor to the quark model.

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Sfermion

In supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model of physics, a sfermion is a hypothetical spin-0 superpartner particle (sparticle) of its associated fermion.

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Shoichi Sakata

was a Japanese physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles.

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Sigma baryon

The Sigma baryons are a family of subatomic hadron particles which have two quarks from the first flavour generation (up and/or down quarks), and a third quark from higher flavour generations, in a combination where the wavefunction does not swap sign when any two quark flavours are swapped.

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SPring-8

SPring-8 (an acronym of Super Photon Ring – 8 GeV) is a synchrotron radiation facility located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, which was developed jointly by RIKEN and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.

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Standard Model

The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, and not including the gravitational force) in the universe, as well as classifying all known elementary particles.

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State of matter

In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist.

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Strange

Strange may refer to.

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Strange B meson

The meson is a meson composed of a bottom antiquark and a strange quark.

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Strange matter

Strange matter is a particular form of quark matter, usually thought of as a "liquid" of up, down and strange quarks.

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Strangelet

A strangelet is a hypothetical particle consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks.

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Strangeness

In particle physics, strangeness ("S") is a property of particles, expressed as a quantum number, for describing decay of particles in strong and electromagnetic interactions which occur in a short period of time.

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Strangeness production

Strangeness production is a signature and a diagnostic tool of quark–gluon plasma (or QGP) formation and properties.

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Subatomic particle

In the physical sciences, subatomic particles are particles much smaller than atoms.

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Sulamith Goldhaber

Sulamith Goldhaber (November 4, 1923 – December 11, 1965) was a high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist.

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T meson

T mesons are hypothetical mesons composed of a top quark and either an up, down, strange or charm antiquark.

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Tetraquark

A tetraquark, in particle physics, is an exotic meson composed of four valence quarks.

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Timeline of particle discoveries

This is a timeline of subatomic particle discoveries, including all particles thus far discovered which appear to be elementary (that is, indivisible) given the best available evidence.

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Timeline of physical chemistry

The timeline of physical chemistry lists the sequence of physical chemistry theories and discoveries in chronological order.

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Timeline of quantum mechanics

This timeline of quantum mechanics shows the key steps, precursors and contributors to the development of quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and quantum chemistry.

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Top quark

The top quark, also known as the t quark (symbol: t) or truth quark, is the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

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Up quark

The up quark or u quark (symbol: u) is the lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a major constituent of matter.

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Upsilon meson

The Upsilon meson is a quarkonium state (i.e. flavourless meson) formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle.

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W and Z bosons

The W and Z bosons are together known as the weak or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons. These elementary particles mediate the weak interaction; the respective symbols are,, and.

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Weak hypercharge

In the Standard Model of electroweak interactions of particle physics, the weak hypercharge is a quantum number relating the electric charge and the third component of weak isospin.

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Weak interaction

In particle physics, the weak interaction (the weak force or weak nuclear force) is the mechanism of interaction between sub-atomic particles that causes radioactive decay and thus plays an essential role in nuclear fission.

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Weak isospin

In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the weak interaction, and parallels the idea of isospin under the strong interaction.

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Xi baryon

The Xi baryons or cascade particles are a family of subatomic hadron particles which have the symbol Ξ and may have an electric charge (Q) of +2 e, +1 e, 0, or −1 e, where e is the elementary charge.

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3 Quarks Daily

3 Quarks Daily (3QD) is an online news aggregator and blog that curates commentary, essays, and multimedia from high quality periodicals, newspapers, journals, and blogs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark

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