: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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Recent Examples on the WebDeeply locked within the physics of gluon self-interactions, however, is a mechanism that makes gluons behave as heavy particles at low momentum.—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024 With the success of the new theory of quarks and gluons, Lagrangians were once again in ascendance.—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024 The same rule applies to interactions between quarks and gluons and between gluons and gluons.—Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024 In this way, physicists have fully defined theories of gluons and other particles purely with S-matrices, avoiding Lagrangians.—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for gluon
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