Antimuon 2026-10-05
Black-hole no-hair theorem 2026-10-05
The black-hole no-hair principle says that radiation carries away the higher multipole structure of a collapsing isolated body, leaving a stationary black hole specified by conserved asymptotic charges such as mass, angular momentum, and electric charge.
Charge neutrality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A system is charge neutral when its total positive and negative electric charge cancel.
Charge relaxation 2026-10-07
In a homogeneous Ohmic conductor, the charge continuity equation and Gauss's law imply exponential decay of the bulk charge density, . For an isolated finite body, bulk charge moves to its boundary; the accumulating surface charge density preserves total electric charge. The formula uses a constant permittivity and the corresponding free-charge convention, or for total charge in the vacuum form of Gauss's law.
Chemical reaction Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
Down antiquark 2026-10-05
Electrochemistry 2026-10-06
Chemical systems whose reactions, transport or equilibrium couple to electric charges and electric potential. An electrolyte carries mobile ions; a Poisson-Boltzmann equation can approximate their equilibrium distributions.
Electrolyte 2026-10-06
A medium with mobile ions capable of carrying electric charge. Dissolved salts typically supply both positive and negative species; a counterion-only model keeps only the mobile species required to oppose a fixed charge. Poisson-Boltzmann equations use ideal Boltzmann distributions for those species.
Gell-Mann--Nishijima formula 2026-10-06
For the light quark flavors, electric charge is , with flavor hypercharge . On it gives , and additivity extends it to the baryon octet and meson octet.
Ion 2026-10-06
A chemical atom or molecular entity with nonzero net electric charge. An ion opposing a fixed charge is called a counterion.
Lambda baryon 2026-10-06
The in the baryon octet is an isospin singlet with strangeness and zero electric charge. Its ordinary valence quark content is .
Lepton Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
A lepton is a Standard Model fermion without color charge. The charged leptons have electric charge and their corresponding neutrinos have charge zero. There are three generations; their antiparticles carry opposite electric charge and lepton number. Charged leptons and neutrinos have lepton number , with the corresponding antiparticles carrying .
Meson-baryon scattering 2026-10-06
Scattering with one meson and one baryon in the initial and final states. The strong interaction conserves electric charge, baryon number, net strangeness, four-momentum, total angular momentum, and parity. Approximate isospin symmetry imposes additional relations among charge-channel amplitudes.
Muon 2026-10-05
The muon is the negatively charged second-generation lepton, with electric charge and lepton number . Its antiparticle is the antimuon.
Noether charge of a complex scalar field 2026-10-05
For the global phase symmetry of a complex scalar field oriented as , the Noether current is . The Euler-Lagrange field equations and its complex conjugate give for a real differentiable potential. Integrating gives when boundary flux vanishes. A charged scalar coupled to electromagnetism has electric charge with the chosen charge normalization; without that physical identification it is an internal charge.