Talk:Hypercharge

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science world, and Strange Paticles (by Fowler and some other guy) both define it as strangeness plus Baryon number.

JeffBobFrank 20:29, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That's only true for baryons composed out of up, down and strange quarks/antiquarks. It's not true for leptons or baryons containing other quarks or gauge particles. Phys 00:06, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Isn't this article written the wrong way round?

This article seems to jump in straight at the deep end, and the context and laymans explanation of the historical significance of the concept come in the last few paragraphs or so. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 12:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Serious inconsistency in this article

Equation (1) in this article directly contradicts equations (2) through (5). It looks like weak hypercharge (which is what everyone uses today) and strong hypercharge (which I know little about) are being mixed up here.

The term "hypercharge" in particle physics usage today is synonymous with weak hypercharge. I would strongly suggest that the term redirect to weak hypercharge, and maybe add a historical note within that article that the term was once used for something different. HEL 18:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, equation (1) does not make any sense, because it implies that which implies . Hypercharge defined in that way obviously depends on type of quarks, more precisely it depends on generation of quarks and on single type of quarks but only in case of quarks of higher generation. This definition would be useless.

Equation (1) is also unreferenced so it should be removed unless there is reason for keeping it.--83.131.69.163 20:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to merge this page with weak hypercharge

I just proposed a merger of this article into weak hypercharge. The term "hypercharge" in particle physics usage today is synonymous with weak hypercharge. I would strongly suggest that the term redirect to weak hypercharge, and maybe add a historical note within that article that the term was once used for something different. HEL 01:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)