Questions tagged [color-charge]
The charge of the strong nuclear force is called "color". DO NOT USE THIS TAG for ordinary visible colors.
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How many antiquarks can be squeezed inside a nucleon without upsetting exclusion principle?
I read about a nucleon with 3 Strange quarks which clearly violates PEP, however this was soon resolved by introducing colour charges. Then I read about colour confinement where surplus energy can be ...
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How do we show that gluon-fields have color?
I understand how to derive the QCD lagrangian based on certain assumptions about Quark fields and $SU(3)$ gauge invariance and in the final expression one finds the term $(A_µ)^c*T_c$ where $T_c$ is ...
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Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) Double Copy and Color-Kinematic duality
According to the wikipedia page on Strong Gravity, the theory is considered "non-mainstream", but from what I can gather there have been some very interesting progress and results since it ...
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Understanding mathematical explanation for Chudakov Effect
I'm trying to better understand some properties of QCD and currently I'm looking into understanding color coherence. I've got the book "Elementary Particle Physics: Foundations of the Standard Model, ...
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What experimental evidence is there for quarks constantly changing colors?
In other words, why is it believed that the quarks are constantly changing colors?
This question answers why theoretically but I'm curious what experimental observation prompted this theoretical piece ...
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What does “singlet state” mean in the context of colour charge, and do red, green and blue colours cancel?
I find myself very confused by the usage of spin terminology to other quantum numbers. A singlet state is the only spinless state of the system. Now, if we consider the possible colour states $|r\...
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Colour-ordering formula of QCD amplitudes (tree-level)
I have been studying colour-ordered amplitudes and spinor helicity formalism for a while. It is now apparent to me that I do not fully understand the 'master' formula which allows us to relate the ...
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From Reflection Spectrum to Preceived Color
I have a reflection curve over the visible spectrum (350nm to 700nm) of a sample. Now, I am interested to know what preceived color one would see ?
Is it possible to go from the reflection spectrum ...
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Could we draw field lines for colour charge?
Electromagnetic charge can be represented with field lines. These are pleasingly intuitive and can be used to visualise Gauss's Law and Maxwell's Laws. Later on Gauss and Maxwell get rolled into a ...
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Can non-color-neutral nucleons exist?
In a proton or neutron, one quark is red, another blue, and the last green, making it color neutral. Is it possible for a nucleon to consist of colors rgg, rbb, rrb, etc? If three quarks of such color ...
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Color function for tetraquark
The color function for tetraquark configuration $(qq)(\bar{q}\bar{q})$ is shown following:
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\zeta_1=\frac{1}{2\sqrt6}[(rb+br)(\bar{b}\bar{r}+\bar{r}\bar{b})+(gr+rg)(\bar{g}\bar{r}+\bar{r}\bar{g})+(...
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Interchanging positions of Gell-Mann matrices with Dirac matrices, Pauli matrices
The anti-commutation relations for Gamma matrices $\big\{\gamma ^\mu , \gamma ^\nu \big\} = 2g ^{\mu \nu} $ can be used for interchanging positions of the respective matrices in a given expression, ...
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Proving the BCJ relation
Background
I am aware that the colour ordered amplitudes are cyclically symmetric, for example, for a 4 point amplitude:
$$A_4(1,2,3,4)= A_4(2,3,4,1) \tag{1}$$
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I am trying to prove the BCJ ...
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Why there is no such a thing as colour moment?
I was busy google about different types of electric and magnetic dipole moment then a thought suddenly striked me, why there is no colour multipole moment?
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How would an interaction with a single charge, and a charged weightless carrying particle behave?
We learnt about, among the other three fundamental interactions, the strong interaction. The particles that are affected by it are those with color-charge. It's carrying particles, gluons, have a ...
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Can indistinguishable particle wavefunctions be written as a product of total observable eigenstates?
Consider the wavefunction of say two electrons in an external potential, associated with two possible states $\phi_a$ and $\phi_b$. Furthermore, each electron can have two spin states $\chi_1$ and $\...
