color charge
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.
Noun
editcolor charge (countable and uncountable, plural color charges)
- (American spelling, nuclear physics, particle physics) In the Standard Model of particle physics, a property possessed by quarks, antiquarks, and gluons that determine rules for how these particles may interact. There are three pairs of colors and anticolors: red, green, blue, and their corresponding anti-colors (e.g. anti-red).
Related terms
edit- color force
- colour force (British spelling)
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Standard Model on Wikipedia.Wikipedia