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  1. Spencer Fretwell

    Graduate Why is gluon's representation 8 in ##SU(3)_c## and not 1?

    By ##SU(3)_c## you mean 'colored' correct? If so, there are 8 colored gluons because in an ##SU(3)## theory, there are ##N^2-1## linearly independent states, which in this case are the colors. The ##\oplus 1## indicates a color singlet state which is 'colorless'. I'm pretty sure singlet states...