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Another of Gell-Mann's ideas is the Gell-Mann–Okubo formula, which was, initially, a formula based on empirical results, but was later explained by his quark model. [44] Gell-Mann and Abraham Pais were involved in explaining this puzzling aspect of the neutral kaon mixing .
The model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann, [1] who dubbed them "quarks" in a concise paper, and George Zweig, [2] [3] who suggested "aces" in a longer manuscript. André Petermann also touched upon the central ideas from 1963 to 1965, without as much quantitative substantiation.
Both the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann and the Israeli physicist Yuval Ne'eman independently and simultaneously proposed the idea in 1961. [1] [2] [a] The name comes from Gell-Mann's (1961) paper and is an allusion to the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism. [3]
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.
In 1961, Murray Gell-Mann introduced the Eightfold Way as a pattern to group baryons and mesons. [11] In 1964, Gell-Mann and George Zweig independently proposed that all hadrons are composed of elementary constituents, which Gell-Mann called "quarks". [12] Initially, only the up quark, the down quark, and the strange quark were proposed. [13]
Gell-Mann and George Zweig, correcting an earlier approach of Shoichi Sakata, went on to propose in 1963 that the structure of the groups could be explained by the existence of three flavors of smaller particles inside the hadrons: the quarks. Gell-Mann also briefly discussed a field theory model in which quarks interact with gluons. [12] [13]
The baryon decuplet shows twelve baryons formed by a combination of three u, d or s-quarks, with a total spin of 3 ⁄ 2. The vertical axis (S) indicates strangeness. Strangeness was introduced by Murray Gell-Mann, [4] Abraham Pais, [5] [6] Tadao Nakano and Kazuhiko Nishijima [7] to explain the fact that certain particles, such as the kaons or ...
This quantum number was introduced by Murray Gell-Mann. This definition gives the strange quark a strangeness of −1 for the above-mentioned reason. Charm (C): Defined as C = n c − n c̅, where n c represents the number of charm quarks (c) and n c̅ represents the number of charm antiquarks. The charm quark's value is +1.