Lesson Plan: Color Charge Physics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to determine which combinations of color charge quarks must have in order for them to form hadrons.
Objectives
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.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- the names, basic properties, and symbols of all of the leptons, quarks, and their antiparticles,
- what hadrons, mesons, baryons, and hyperons are,
- some more common mesons and baryons,
- what strangeness and charm are.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- gluons,
- mixed states,
- Feynman diagrams.
