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What is the color charge in QCD?

  • Property of quarks

  • Type of photon

  • Electron spin

  • Neutron mass

Answer

Property of quarks, color charge is a fundamental force carrier in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), Theory of strong interactions. It is analogous to electric charge in electromagnetism, but with three types of charges instead of two. Quarks carry one of three color charges, while gluons, the force carriers of QCD, carry a combination of two color charges.
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