: a hypothetical neutral massless particle held to bind together quarks to form hadrons
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It is composed of smaller particles called quarks and gluons, bound by the strong interaction.
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Protons and neutrons, meanwhile, aren’t fundamental particles, but are composite particles composed of quarks and gluons.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
During high-energy collisions of lead nuclei at the LHC, scientists can momentarily recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed just millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Protons and neutrons, meanwhile, aren’t fundamental particles, but are composite particles composed of quarks and gluons.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Last year, Yang began to use analog simulations to tackle how the strong force might have behaved during some of the universe’s very earliest moments, when the quarks and gluons that later became bound up in hadrons may have existed as an unbound soup, called quark-gluon plasma.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
During high-energy collisions of lead nuclei at the LHC, scientists can momentarily recreate quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed just millionths of a second after the Big Bang.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
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“Gluon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluon. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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