Physics

Particle physics

Strangeness production

Strange quark

Nuclear physics

Hadron

Strangeness

Strange matter

Quark

Reviews of Modern Physics

Everyday matter is made of the lightest up and down quarks. The strange quark is the third lightest of all quarks. Strangeness, a property of particles associated with the number of strange quarks, preceded the theory and discovery of the quark by about two decades. Recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of strangeness in nuclei are reviewed. Topics include the production of strange particles, properties of hypernuclei, and strange dense matter.

Strangeness in nuclear physics