What's the Difference Between Mesons and Gluons?

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Gluons Are the Force Carriers of the Strong Force. Also Quarks Have Color Charge Color Charge Quarks Have a Color Charge of Red, Green or Blue and Antiquarks...

What's the Difference Between Mesons and Gluons?

Gluons are the force carriers of the strong force. Also quarks have color charge

color charge
Quarks have a color charge of red, green or blue and antiquarks have a color charge of antired, antigreen or antiblue. ... All other particles have zero color charge. Mathematically speaking, the color charge of a particle is the value of a certain quadratic Casimir operator in the representation of the particle.
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(i.e. the take part in the strong interaction). Mesons are the combination of a quark and an antiquark.

Do mesons have gluons?

Gluons also share this property of being confined within hadrons. One consequence is that gluons are not directly involved in the nuclear forces between hadrons. The force mediators for these are other hadrons called mesons. ... In such a plasma there are no hadrons; quarks and gluons become free particles.

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What are gluons made of?

These particles each consist of three quarks and varying numbers of gluons, along with what are called sea quarks—pairs of quarks accompanied by their antimatter partners, antiquarks—which appear and disappear continuously. And protons and neutrons are not the only particles made of quarks found in the universe.

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