| gluon | has color charge |  |
| carries the force strong force | |
| has definition The hypothetical particle that carries the force between quarks. | |
| has definition Smallest bundle of the strong force field; messenger particle of the strong force. | |
| 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 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 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. | |
| is a kind of carrier boson | |
| is a kind of parton | |
| is a kind of massless particle | |
| massless particle | has mass 0 | |
| carrier boson | has synonym force carrier | |
| particle | obeys uncertainty principle | |
| has frequency inversely proportional to the wavelength | |
| has wavelength inversely proportional to its momentum | |
| has charge | |
| elementary particle | has spin | |
| hypothetical particle | has acceptance status hypothetical | |
| boson | has quantum behavior Bose-Einstein statistics | |
| has spin integral | |
| physical object | has location or center of gravity | |
| has angular momentum | |
| has velocity | |
| has momentum | |
| has temperature | |
| has volume | |
| has extent | |
| has material | |
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