Strange quark

Strange quark

Infobox Particle
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name = Strange Quark


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composition = Elementary particle
family = Fermion
group = Quark
generation = Second
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mass = 80 - 130 MeV/c2
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electric_charge = −1/3 e
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The strange quark is a second-generation quark with a charge of −(1/3)"e" and a strangeness of −1. It is the third-lightest quark after the up and down quarks, with a mass of somewhere between 80 and 130 MeV. The first strange particle (particle containing a strange-valence quark) was discovered in 1947, with the identification of the kaon, but the strange quark itself was not identified until Gell-Mann and Zweig developed the quark model in 1964.

Hadrons containing strange-valence quarks

Hadrons containing strange-valence quarks include the following:
*Kaons are mesons containing a strange quark (or its antiparticle) and an up or down quark.
*The SubatomicParticle|Eta and SubatomicParticle|Eta prime flavorless mesons are linear combinations of several quark-antiquark pairs, including the strange-antistrange.
*The SubatomicParticle|Phi meson flavorless meson is pure strange-antistrange.
*Strange baryons are known as hyperons: the SubatomicParticle|Sigmas and SubatomicParticle|Lambdas have one strange quark, the SubatomicParticle|Xis two, and the SubatomicParticle|Omegas three.

ee also

* Strange matter
* Strange star
* Strangelet


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