gluon | has color charge | ![2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
carries the force strong force | ![2001-09-27 09:28:07.0 2001-09-27 09:28:07.0](facet.gif) |
has definition The hypothetical particle that carries the force between quarks. | ![has source: Peat, D. 1988 Superstrings and the Search for a Theory of Everything, Contemporary Books, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Peat, D. 1988 Superstrings and the Search for a Theory of Everything, Contemporary Books, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
has definition Smallest bundle of the strong force field; messenger particle of the strong force. | ![has source: Greene, B. 1999 The Elegant Universe, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Greene, B. 1999 The Elegant Universe, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
has definition Quanta that carry the strong nuclear force. Like photons, vector bosons, and gravitons - the carriers respectively of electromagnetism, the weak force, and gravitation - gluons are massless bosons. Consequently, for simplicity's sake, some physicists lump together all the force-carrying quanta under the term "gluons". | ![has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
has definition The force-carrying particles associated with the strong interactions, the forces which bind quarks inside of protons and neutrons. For more details, see Yang-Mills theories. | ![has source: Guth, A.H. 1997 The Inflationary Universe, Addison-Wesley, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Guth, A.H. 1997 The Inflationary Universe, Addison-Wesley, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
has definition Gluons are the massless gauge bosons of QCD which mediate the strong color force between quarks. Because of the non-Abelian structure of the theory, gluons can interact with themselves, and may form particles consisting of gluons bound together. The existence of these "glueballs" has yet to be confirmed. | ![has source: Coughlan, G.D., Dodd, J.E. 1999 The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Coughlan, G.D., Dodd, J.E. 1999 The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
is a kind of carrier boson | ![2001-09-27 09:28:07.0 2001-09-27 09:28:07.0](facet.gif) |
is a kind of parton | ![has source: Coughlan, G.D., Dodd, J.E. 1999 The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Coughlan, G.D., Dodd, J.E. 1999 The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
is a kind of massless particle | ![has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0 has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:28:19.0](facet.gif) |
massless particle | has mass 0 | ![2001-09-27 09:28:02.0 2001-09-27 09:28:02.0](facet.gif) |
carrier boson | has synonym force carrier | ![2001-09-27 09:28:07.0 2001-09-27 09:28:07.0](facet.gif) |
particle | obeys uncertainty principle | ![2001-09-27 09:28:02.0 2001-09-27 09:28:02.0](facet.gif) |
has frequency inversely proportional to the wavelength | ![2001-09-27 09:28:02.0 2001-09-27 09:28:02.0](facet.gif) |
has wavelength inversely proportional to its momentum | ![2001-09-27 09:28:02.0 2001-09-27 09:28:02.0](facet.gif) |
has charge | ![2001-09-27 09:28:01.0 2001-09-27 09:28:01.0](facet.gif) |
elementary particle | has spin | ![2001-09-27 09:28:02.0 2001-09-27 09:28:02.0](facet.gif) |
hypothetical particle | has acceptance status hypothetical | ![2001-09-27 09:28:16.0 2001-09-27 09:28:16.0](facet.gif) |
boson | has quantum behavior Bose-Einstein statistics | ![2001-09-27 09:28:07.0 2001-09-27 09:28:07.0](facet.gif) |
has spin integral | ![2001-09-27 09:28:07.0 2001-09-27 09:28:07.0](facet.gif) |
physical object | has location or center of gravity | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has angular momentum | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has velocity | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has momentum | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has temperature | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has volume | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has extent | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |
has material | ![2001-09-27 09:27:27.0 2001-09-27 09:27:27.0](facet.gif) |