Gluon

/ˈɡluː.ɒn/

Synonyms for "gluon" (4 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
color gauge boson

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
elementary particle

Related words (2)

Noun(2 words)
field quantumgauge boson

Related word relations

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More general

3 entries
elementary particlegauge bosonsubatomic particle

More specific

1 entries
color octet gluon

Collocations

6 entries
color octet gluonsgluon exchangegluon fieldgluon propagatorgluon self interactionmassless gluon

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Naive realism might ask today: Tell me what space is in itself, not in terms of other things. Tell me what a gluon is at bottom, or a neutrino, or a charge.

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The so-called spin crisis has had important effects beyond simply confronting theorists with a particularly sharp challenge to their incomplete understanding of quantum chromodynamics, the underlying field theory of quarks and the gluons that mediate their strong interactions.

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Lattice QCD explores the particle realm by taking a different tack. It simulates quark and gluon behaviors by applying the full QCD theory to a tiny grid like facsimile of the space-time in which particles actually interact.

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