Explore: Eightfold Way (nuclear Physics)

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

phase symmetry 1961 Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman discover the Eightfold Way patterns, the SU(3) group 1962 Leon Lederman shows that the electron

Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of

of newly discovered particles, such as the kaon, and was used in the Eightfold Way classification of hadrons and in subsequent quark models. These quantum

including its composition and the forces that bind it together, is called nuclear physics. The nucleus was discovered in 1911, as a result of Ernest Rutherford's

strange quarks, as they were required to explain the eightfold way. In the beginnings of particle physics (first half of the 20th century), hadrons such as

even smaller particles such as quarks. Particle physics studies these smallest particles; nuclear physics studies atomic nuclei and their (immediate) constituents:

Eightfold Way. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-7382-0299-0. Original Y. Ne'eman (1961). "Derivation of strong interactions from gauge invariance". Nuclear

instead turned to nuclear reactors as a possible source; a fission reactor was recommended as a better alternative by Los Alamos physics division leader

the scheme as the eightfold way, because of the octets of particles in the classification (the term is a reference to the Eightfold Path of Buddhism)