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. 2015 Jul 6;5:11591. doi: 10.1038/srep11591

Table 1. The information theoretic content of the weak decay processes violating the strangeness number.

hyperon (quarks) decay channel (frequency) phase shift χSP in[π] visibility Inline graphic predictability Inline graphic
Λ(uds) pπ (63.9%) −(0.043 ± 0.023) 0.648 ± 0.014 0.762 ± 0.012
  nπ0 (35.8%) −(0.042 ± 0.023) 0.656 ± 0.040* 0.755 ± 0.034*
Inline graphic Inline graphic(63.9%) 0.036 ± 0.021 0.714 ± 0.079* 0.700 ± 0.080*
Σ(dds) nπ (99.8%) −(0.38 ± 0.16) 0.19 ± 0.24 0.98 ± 0.05
Σ+(uus) pπ0 (51.6%) −(0.038±0.035) 0.976 ± 0.016 0.161 ± 0.097
  nπ+(48.3%) 0.41 ± 0.13 0.24 ± 0.33 0.972 ± 0.078
Ξ0(uss) Λπ0 (99.5%) 0.214 ± 0.085 0.53 ± 0.11 0.85 ± 0.07
Ξ(dss) Λπ (99.8%) 0.0226 ± 0.0086 0.459 ± 0.012 0.8884 ± 0.0062

The values and errors are taken from the particle data book15. The asterisk * denotes that the phase ϕ was not independently measured but deduced via conservation laws from the other decay modes. Inline graphic also decays into nπ0, however, it has not yet been measured. The only non-resonant hyperons with spin-Inline graphic are the Ω± particles, the measured asymmetry are close to zero (αΩ = 0.0180 ± 0.0024) and no ϕ information is available.