Hypercharge - Relation With Electric Charge and Isospin

Relation With Electric Charge and Isospin

The Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula relates isospin and electric charge

where I3 is the third component of isospin and Q is the particle's charge.

Isospin creates multiplets of particles whose average charge is related to the hypercharge by:

since the hypercharge is the same for all members of a multiplet, and the average of the I3 values is 0.

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