: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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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.
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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
Instead the primordial cosmic soup would have been a blazing mess of the fundamental particles called quarks, as well as gluons, which carry the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The photon and the gluons of the Standard Model are massless, whereas the massive Standard Model particles range from the electron, at about half-an-MeV, to the top quark, at 173 GeV.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
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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
Instead the primordial cosmic soup would have been a blazing mess of the fundamental particles called quarks, as well as gluons, which carry the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2025
The photon and the gluons of the Standard Model are massless, whereas the massive Standard Model particles range from the electron, at about half-an-MeV, to the top quark, at 173 GeV.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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