In particle physics, the gluon field is a 4- vector field characterizing the propagation of gluons during strong interaction between quarks. It plays the same role in quantum chromodynamics as the electromagnetic 4-potential in quantum electrodynamics - the gluon field creates a tensor of gluon field strength.
Content
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Gauge covariant derivative in QCD
- 3 Gauge transformations
- 4 See also
Introduction
Cluns can have 8 colored charges , so there are 8 fields. Unlike photons, which are neutral, and therefore there is only one photon field.
QCD gauge covariant derivative
Gauge Transforms
See also
- Confinement
- Gell Mann Matrices