Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A massless, neutral vector boson that mediates strong interactions between quarks, binding them together within hadrons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics A massless
gauge boson that bindsquarks together to formbaryons ,mesons and otherhadrons and is associated with thestrong nuclear force.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gluon.
Examples
-
One of the bosons there are four flavours sticks them together and is called a gluon, which sounds like glue and is therefore probably the easiest concept out of all of this comprehend.
-
I think the interiors of black holes are dual to a condensate phase of gauge fields, such as gluon plasmas probed at RHIC, and that these objects are determined by a dilaton field to contain information for an AdS (Anti-deSitter) spacetime and its conformal infinity.
Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008
-
Strings are similar to mesons, where an open string with its endpoints, or Chan-Paton factors, are similar to a QCD gluon flux tube with quarks at the end.
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup | Universe Today 2010
-
If you are operating at first order, the vanilla type of PDFs naively tell you what the probability of finding a quark or gluon of a certain type and certain longitudinal momentum is.
Generalized PDFs Imply a Gravitomagnetic Moment!?!?!? « Imaginary Potential 2008
-
Tevatron managed some heavy ion (gold) collisions at the TeV threshold, created what look like quark-gluon plasmas.
-
Achieved at the almost speed of light collision of gold ions, this resulted in the temporary existence of quark-gluon soup – something first seen at about ten to the power of minus twelve of the first second after the big bang.
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup | Universe Today 2010
-
How the proton gets its spin out of the quark-gluon shimmy is still a big mystery, so theorists have been experimenting with difference ways to combine PDFs and form factors, to include interference terms, and understand all components of nulceon spin.
Generalized PDFs Imply a Gravitomagnetic Moment!?!?!? « Imaginary Potential 2008
-
The goal is to study lots of processes, but most significantly to create really hot, dense conditions where we may be able to observe a phase transition in QCD to something called the quark-gluon plasma.
-
The goal is to study lots of processes, but most significantly to create really hot, dense conditions where we may be able to observe a phase transition in QCD to something called the quark-gluon plasma.
-
Anonymous (the previous) isn't all wrong: photons do mediate the electromagnetic force which is key for holding molecules together (and therefore the size of particles as addressed in this post)... sadly, for anonymous you kind of also need the weak (bosons) and strong (gluon) forces to hold nuclei and atoms together, respectively.
How big is that molecule in the window EliRabett 2010
-
These are clusters of gluons, the elementary particles that bind quarks to form protons and neutrons and hold them inside the nucleus of an atom.
A particle made of force: physicists say they’ve found mysterious ‘glueball’ Mohana Basu 2026
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.