Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Strangeness of elementary particles


What is the property, whose violation led to the assumption of strangeness? Prior to the discovery of strangeness was it assumed that particles that are produced by strong interactions can decay only through strong interactions? But the discovery of particles like kaons, and baryons showed that they were generated by strong interaction but decayed through weak interaction. Is this the property that is called strangeness?




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