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parton comparison table

Subject is part of is a kind of has color charge has quantum behavior carries the force has spin obey has synonym has mass has definition has charge has antiparticle is accelerated by

antiquark charged particle uncertainty principle The antiparticle of the quark. non-zero quark electric or magnetic fields

gluon massless particle Bose-Einstein statistics strong force integral uncertainty principle force carrier 0 Gluons are the massless gauge bosons of QCD which mediate the strong color force between quarks. Because of the non-Abelian structure of the theory, gluons can interact with themselves, and may form particles consisting of gluons bound together. The existence of these "glueballs" has yet to be confirmed.

quark nucleon charged particle Fermi-Dirac statistics 1/2 exclusion principle Fundamental particles from which all hadrons are made. According to the theory of quantum chromodynamics, protons, neutrons, and their higher-energy cousins are composed of trios of quarks, while the mesons are each made of one quark and one antiquark. Held together by the strong nuclear force, quarks are not found in isolation in nature today; see asymptotic freedom. non-zero antiquark electric or magnetic fields

Subject	is part of	is a kind of	has color charge	has quantum behavior	carries the force	has spin	obey	has synonym	has mass	has definition	has charge	has antiparticle	is accelerated by
antiquark		charged particle					uncertainty principle			The antiparticle of the quark.	non-zero	quark	electric or magnetic fields
gluon		massless particle		Bose-Einstein statistics	strong force	integral	uncertainty principle	force carrier	0	Gluons are the massless gauge bosons of QCD which mediate the strong color force between quarks. Because of the non-Abelian structure of the theory, gluons can interact with themselves, and may form particles consisting of gluons bound together. The existence of these "glueballs" has yet to be confirmed.
quark	nucleon	charged particle		Fermi-Dirac statistics		1/2	exclusion principle			Fundamental particles from which all hadrons are made. According to the theory of quantum chromodynamics, protons, neutrons, and their higher-energy cousins are composed of trios of quarks, while the mesons are each made of one quark and one antiquark. Held together by the strong nuclear force, quarks are not found in isolation in nature today; see asymptotic freedom.	non-zero	antiquark	electric or magnetic fields

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