: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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The energy released can briefly form quark-gluon plasma, thought to be the first state of matter after the Big Bang.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
During high-energy collisions of lead nuclei at the LHC, scientists can momentarily recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed just millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
In other models, all protons and neutrons — and even their more exotic cousins — break down completely, forming a soup of quarks and gluons, the carriers of the strong nuclear force.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Similarly, quarks and gluons by themselves carry color charges, and all the hadrons are color-neutral combinations of those quarks and gluons.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
During high-energy collisions of lead nuclei at the LHC, scientists can momentarily recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed just millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
In other models, all protons and neutrons — and even their more exotic cousins — break down completely, forming a soup of quarks and gluons, the carriers of the strong nuclear force.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Similarly, quarks and gluons by themselves carry color charges, and all the hadrons are color-neutral combinations of those quarks and gluons.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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