Lesson: Color Charge Physics

Students will be able to

• recall that there are three types of color charges: red, green, and blue,
• recall that there are three types of anticolor charges: antired, antigreen, and antiblue, commonly represented as cyan, magenta, and yellow,
• recall that the total color of a hadron must be white/colorless,
• understand how color charges sum for composite particles,
• recall that baryons can be white by having one quark of each color charge,
• recall that antibaryons can be white by having one antiquark of each anticolor charge,
• recall that mesons can be white by having one quark of one color and one antiquark of the corresponding anticolor,
• recall that quarks can only have color charge and that antiquarks can only have anticolor charge.