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Definition of Gluon
1. Noun. A gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks.
Definition of Gluon
1. Noun. (particles) A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gluon
1. a hypothetical massless particle binding quarks together [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gluon
Literary usage of Gluon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Computing Radiation Dosimetry: CRD 2002 : Workshop Proceedings, Sacavém by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Instituto Tecnologico e Nuclear (2004)
"Suppose quarks are held together by colour lines of force, the gluon-gluon
interaction will pull them together into the form of a tube or a string. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
""Further Development of the Model of Quark-gluon Strings for the Description of
High-energy Collisions with a Target Nucleus". Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. ..."
3. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"gluon The carrier particle of the strong interaction. A quark always has an
associated gluon. They are confined in color charged hadrons whose color charge ..."
4. National Accounts of OECD Countries: V.2 by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2004)
"Suppose quarks are held together by colour lines of force, the gluon-gluon
interaction will pull them together into the form of a tube or a string. ..."
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