eightfold way

eightfold way
noun
Etymology: from the Eightfold Way Eightfold Path; from the fact that the most common grouping contains eight interacting particles
: a unified theoretical scheme for classifying the relationship among elementary particles subject to the strong force on the basis of isospin and hypercharge

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Physics.
a scheme for classifying hadrons according to a symmetry principle based on strangeness and isotopic spin: a forerunner of the quark model.
[1925-30; so named because hadrons with low mass and spin form groups of eight; with jocular allusion to the Eightfold Way of Buddhism (see EIGHTFOLD PATH)]

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eightfold way,
Nuclear Physics. a theoretical classification of strongly interacting elementary particles into multiplets and supermultiplets, whose relationship is established by their having nearly the same mass, hypercharge, and isotopic spin; SU(3) symmetry.
╂[ the Buddhist term for the eight paths to attain enlightenment; so called from the original suggestion that this classification would explain the relationship among a group of eight different elementary particles]

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