Hypercharge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A quantum number equal to twice the average electric charge of a particle multiplet or, equivalently, to the sum of the strangeness and the baryon number.
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  • n. A quantum characteristic of a group of subatomic particles governed by the strong force that is related to strangeness and is represented by a number equal to twice the average value of the electric charge of the group.
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    "Gell-Mann's proposed the new rule: Elementary particles can be transformed in others by the strong and the electromagnetic interactions only if the total hypercharge is conserved."
     
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