color charge

English

Alternative forms

• colour charge (British spelling)

Etymology

From a loose analogy to the set of primary colors. The charge property has nothing to do with visible color.

Noun

color charge (countable and uncountable, plural color charges)

1. (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

• color force
• colour force (British spelling)

See also

• nuclear force
• residual strong force
• strong force
• strong interaction
• strong nuclear force
• strong nuclear interaction

 

Further reading

• Standard Model on Wikipedia.Wikipedia