Gluonic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.

    "The two steps in the gluing of matter—quarks into nucleons, and nucleons into nuclei—remain mysterious, and both will be investigated at cebaf. A series of experiments on hadronic excitations will probe the consistent quark model; others will look for gluonic states or for strange quarks inside the proton or neutron."

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"The two steps in the gluing of matter—quarks into nucleons, and nucleons into nuclei—remain mysterious, and both will be investigated at cebaf. A series of experiments on hadronic excitations will probe the consistent quark model; others will look for gluonic states or for strange quarks inside the proton or neutron."

Etymology

From gluon + -ic.

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