flavour
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type of elementary particles occurring in the Standard Model
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- Instance of
- quantum number
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- different from
- flavoring
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Encyclopedic overview
In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours of leptons. They are conventionally parameterized with flavour quantum numbers that are assigned to all subatomic particles. They can also be described by some of the family symmetries proposed for the quark-lepton generations.
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