Flavour (particle physics)

Flavour (or flavor) is a quantum number of elementary particles related to their weak interactions. In the electroweak theory this symmetry is gauged, and flavour changing processes exist. In quantum chromodynamics, on the other hand, flavour is a global symmetry.

Related Topics:
Quantum number - Elementary particle - Weak interactions - Electroweak theory - Gauged - Flavour changing processes - Quantum chromodynamics

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