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Strangeness is an excited state of matter and its decay is governed by CKM mixing. The terms strange and strangeness predate the discovery of the quark, and were adopted after its discovery in order to preserve the continuity of the phrase: strangeness of particles as −1 and anti-particles as +1, per the original definition.
The physical basis behind both isospin and strangeness was only explained in 1964, when Gell-Mann [9] and George Zweig [10] [11] independently proposed the quark model, which at that time consisted only of the up, down, and strange quarks. [12] Up and down quarks were the carriers of isospin, while the strange quark carried strangeness.
A strange particle is an elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number different from zero. Strange particles are members of a large family of elementary particles carrying the quantum number of strangeness, including several cases where the quantum number is hidden in a strange/anti-strange pair, for example in the ϕ meson.
Mesons named with the letter "f" are scalar mesons (as opposed to a pseudo-scalar meson), and mesons named with the letter "a" are axial-vector mesons (as opposed to an ordinary vector meson) a.k.a. an isoscalar vector meson, while the letters "b" and "h" refer to axial-vector mesons with positive parity, negative C-parity, and quantum numbers I G of 1 + and 0 − respectively.
The discovery of hadrons with the internal quantum number "strangeness" marks the beginning of a most exciting epoch in particle physics that even now, fifty years later, has not yet found its conclusion ... by and large experiments have driven the development, and that major discoveries came unexpectedly or even against expectations expressed ...
Strangeness: 0: Charm: 0: Bottomness: 0: ... was a crucial clue in the development of the quark model. ... Particle name Symbol Quark content Mass
The strangeness quantum number S (not to be confused with spin) was noticed to go up and down along with particle mass. The higher the mass, the lower (more negative) the strangeness (the more s quarks). Particles could be described with isospin projections (related to charge) and strangeness (mass) (see the uds nonet figures).
In high-energy nuclear physics, strangeness production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a signature and diagnostic tool of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formation and properties. [1] Unlike up and down quarks , from which everyday matter is made, heavier quark flavors such as strange and charm typically approach chemical equilibrium in a ...