gluon
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- noun
- /ˈɡluːɒn/
- Specialized
- In a matter of microseconds after the Big Bang, quarks and gluons formed protons and neutrons.
- quark-gluon
- gluon plasma
- massless gluons
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Watch on YouTubeThe strong force carried by gluons doesn't work that way.
- The strong force carried by gluons doesn't work that way.
- The strong force has gluons, the weak force has W&Z; bosons.
- Those are called gluons because they glue quarks together.
- We can't even calculate how quarks and gluons hold together.
- But those can have been broken down into your gluons or leptons, quarks, right?
- There's photons, there's gravitons, there are Higgs bosons, there are gluons.
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RHIC, which was dedicated on 4 October, is designed to study the transition to a quark-gluon plasma.
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Nearly all of our mass comes from quark-gluon interactions in the nucleons.
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This remaining possible gluon doesn't exist in nature.
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The particles in there are gluons, right?
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The strong force carried by gluons doesn't work that way.
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The three jets are attributed to a quark-antiquark pair plus a gluon.
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The crucial transition from ordinary nuclear matter to quark-gluon matter appears to occur within the RHIC energy range, far below LHC's reach.
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The initial color glass condensate becomes a gradually thermalizing quark-gluon plasma that eventually cools into a gas of hadrons.
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QCD, much like quantum gravity, is inherently nonlinear: gravitons gravitate and gluons attract one another with gluonic forces.
Academic text (1995) -
The quarks come together, held by gluons, to create stable atoms and thus stable molecules.
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Etymology
The word gluon comes from the English word glue, meaning 'to stick', and the common particle ending -on, as in electron and proton. So a gluon is a 'glue' particle that holds tiny building blocks called quarks together inside protons and neutrons.