: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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One of the goals is to better understand the force inside gluons, which hold the quarks together (the building blocks of protons and neutrons) and is known as the strongest force in nature.
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Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
Both the colored gluons and quarks are imprisoned within hadrons.
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Deeply locked within the physics of gluon self-interactions, however, is a mechanism that makes gluons behave as heavy particles at low momentum.
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
With the success of the new theory of quarks and gluons, Lagrangians were once again in ascendance.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
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Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024
Both the colored gluons and quarks are imprisoned within hadrons.
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Deeply locked within the physics of gluon self-interactions, however, is a mechanism that makes gluons behave as heavy particles at low momentum.
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
With the success of the new theory of quarks and gluons, Lagrangians were once again in ascendance.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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