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Eightfold way (physics)
Classification scheme for hadrons / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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][lower-alpha 1] 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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