Back طريقة ثمانية (فيزياء) Arabic Eightfold Way German Camino óctuple (física) Spanish راه هشت‌گانه (فیزیک) Persian Voie octuple French Via dell'ottetto Italian 팔정도 (물리학) Korean Achtvoudig pad (natuurkunde) Dutch Ścieżka ośmiokrotna Polish Восьмеричный путь (физика) Russian

Eightfold way (physics)

The pseudoscalar meson octet. Particles along the same horizontal line share the same strangeness, s, while those on the same left-leaning diagonals share the same charge, q (given as multiples of the elementary charge).

In physics, the eightfold way is an organizational scheme for a class of subatomic particles known as hadrons that led to the development of the quark model. 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]

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