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How to prove the equivalence of two definitions of hypercharge?
Before introducing top bottom and charm quarks,Strong Hypercharge is defined in the following two ways---
$1.\,\,\,Y=B+S$ where $Y,B,S$ are the hypercharge, baryon number and strangeness respectively.
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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 ...
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