gluon in English

noun
1
a subatomic particle of a class that is thought to bind quarks together.
Above that energy scale, the weak nuclear bosons are massless like the photon that transmits the electromagnetic force between electrons and protons and the gluon that transmits the strong nuclear force between quarks.

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1. A quark - gluon plasma ( QGP ) is expected to appear in laboratories only through high energy heavy - ion collisions.

2. Then, in 19 the US Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider established that a quark gluon plasma could be created on a miniscule scale.

3. Any of a class of elementary or composite particles, including the photon, pion, and gluon, that are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle (that is, any two Bosons can potentially be in the same …

4. Boson [ bō ′sŏn ] Any of a class of elementary or composite particles, including the photon, pion, and gluon, that are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle (that is, any two Bosons can potentially be in the same quantum state)