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Gluon
A gluon is the carrier of the strong nuclear interaction.
Explanation
Gluons are never observed as free elementary particles, since they are confined within hadrons. They are gauge bosons. In composite particles, the quarks are held together by gluons.
G a u g e b o s o n
SU(3)g
gluon
There are eight linearly independent gluons. They have the names of the colors red, blue and green.
G l u o n s
HistoryIn 1972, Harald Fritzsch and Murray Gell-Mann drew up a gauge theory for the strong interaction, called quantum chromodynamics. |