gluon

[gloo-on] /ˈglu ɒn/
noun, Physics.
1.
an unobserved massless particle with spin 1 that is believed to transmit the strong force between quarks, binding them together into baryons and mesons.
Origin of gluon
1970-75; glue + -on1
Examples from the web for gluon
  • Particle collisions hint at existence of undiscovered gluon.
  • Researchers have dubbed this state of matter the quark-gluon plasma.
  • The shattering can produce a quark-gluon plasma, a bulk form of quarks and gluons.
  • Hence two quarks in a meson are connected by this gluon-chromo-flux tube.
  • The second important reason to study photons at a hadron collider is to measure the gluon distribution inside the proton.
  • These results confirm the perfect liquid nature of quark-gluon plasma and tease out further details of its properties.
  • Scientists have always known that to calculate the position of every meson and gluon would be impossible, so they cheated.
  • At low transverse momentum, multiple soft gluon emission is expected to dominate the cross section.
British Dictionary definitions for gluon

gluon

/ˈɡluːɒn/
noun
1.
a hypothetical particle believed to be exchanged between quarks in order to bind them together to form particles
Word Origin
C20: from glue + -on
gluon in Science
gluon
  (gl'ŏn)   
The subatomic particle that mediates the strong force. The exchange of gluons between two quarks changes the color of the quarks and results in the attractive force holding them together in hadrons. Gluons are bosons. See Table at subatomic particle.