: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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On Earth, that record is currently held by the Large Hadron Collider, where the overwhelming majority of proton-proton collisions actually result in the gluons inside each proton colliding.
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Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
The collider’s primary scientific goal was to recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed microseconds after the Big Bang.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
In a sense, the quark-gluon plasma seems impossible.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
This primordial soup was composed of a plasma of particles called quarks and gluons that rapidly cooled, causing these two types of particles to fuse and create fundamental particles like protons and neutrons, which today sit at the heart of all atoms that make up the matter all around us.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
The collider’s primary scientific goal was to recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed microseconds after the Big Bang.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
In a sense, the quark-gluon plasma seems impossible.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
This primordial soup was composed of a plasma of particles called quarks and gluons that rapidly cooled, causing these two types of particles to fuse and create fundamental particles like protons and neutrons, which today sit at the heart of all atoms that make up the matter all around us.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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