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| carrier boson | elementary particle | | Bose-Einstein statistics | | force carrier | | Particle that acts as the transmitters of forces. The best known example is the photon, which transmits electromagnetic forces. The gluons are the transmitters of the strong interactions, and the W+, W-, and Z0 particles are the transmitters of the weak interactions. See Table 7.1 on page 120. |
| massless particle | particle | | | | | 0 | A particle with zero mass |
| parton | elementary particle | | | hypothetical | | | A hypothetical pointlike constituent of a nucleon, which contains all the charge of the nucleon. |
| gluon | massless particle | | Bose-Einstein statistics | hypothetical | force carrier | 0 | 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. |
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