: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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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.
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The quantum realm defies binaries — gluons especially so.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 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
The team found that the sharing of information that defines entanglement occurs across whole groups of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons within a proton.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The quantum realm defies binaries — gluons especially so.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 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
The team found that the sharing of information that defines entanglement occurs across whole groups of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons within a proton.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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