color charge

American  

[kuhl-er chahrj] / ˈkʌl ər ˌtʃɑrdʒ /

noun

1. Physics. the property of quarks and gluons in quantum chromodynamics that gives rise to the strong force, analogous in some ways to electric charge but occurring in three types conventionally called red, green, and blue.

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color charge Scientific  

1. A property of quarks and gluons that determines their strong force interaction with each other (especially the attractive and repulsive forces between them). Color charge is considered to be a form of charge, much like electric charge. Although there are three basic color charges (designated blue, green, and red) along with associated anticolors, color charge has nothing to do with the more familiar notion of colors seen by the eye.

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Example Sentences

Using QCD theory, they worked out the distribution of color charge that should have existed throughout the hot, early plasma.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Now, MIT physicists have found that this primordial process also would have produced some unexpected companions: even smaller black holes with unprecedented amounts of a nuclear-physics property known as "color charge."

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

But the smallest black holes would have been packed with color charge.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Quantum chromodynamics describes the interactions between quarks and gluons by ascribing them a property called color charge.

From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2023

This color charge is akin to electrical charge in the theory of electromagnetism, and it also explains why quantum chromodynamics so quickly gets out of hand.

From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2023