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Key facts
- Composition
- Elementary particle
- Statistics
- Fermionic
- Family
- Quark
- Generation
- Second
- Interactions
- strong , weak , electromagnetic force , gravity
- Symbol
- s
- Antiparticle
- Strange antiquark ( s )
- Theorized
- Murray Gell-Mann (1964), George Zweig (1964)
- Discovered
- 1947 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester , 1968 SLAC
- Mass
- 95 +9, −3 MeV/ c
- Decays into
- Up quark
- Electric charge
- − 1 / 3 e
Article
The strange quark or s quark (from its symbol, s) is the third lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle. Strange quarks are found in subatomic particles called hadrons. Examples of hadrons containing strange quarks include kaons (K), strange D mesons (D s), sigma baryons (Σ), and other strange particles.
According to the IUPAP, the symbol s is the official name, while "strange" is to be considered only as a mnemonic. The name sideways has also been used because the s quark (but also the other three remaining quarks) has an I3 value of 0 while the u ("up") and d ("down") quarks have values of +1/2 and −1/2 respectively.