: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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Physicists will get an unrivaled look into the workings of quarks and gluons and yet another chance to grapple with nature’s strongest force.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
This is the first evidence that this quark-gluon plasma reacts to particles speeding through it in the same way that liquid does, splashing and rippling, acting as a single unified liquid rather than randomly scattering as individual particles would.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
In these conditions, ordinary nuclear matter melts into a soup of quarks and gluons.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
This force binds quarks and gluons together to make protons and neutrons.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
This is the first evidence that this quark-gluon plasma reacts to particles speeding through it in the same way that liquid does, splashing and rippling, acting as a single unified liquid rather than randomly scattering as individual particles would.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
In these conditions, ordinary nuclear matter melts into a soup of quarks and gluons.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
This force binds quarks and gluons together to make protons and neutrons.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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