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Definition: Gluon |
GluonNoun1. A gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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In physics, gluons are the elementary particles which are responsible for the strong nuclear force. They bind quarks together to form protons and neutrons; their electric charge is zero, their spin is 1 and they are generally assumed to have zero mass. Gluons are ultimately responsible for the stability of atomic nuclei.
In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), today's accepted theory for the description of the strong nuclear force, gluons are exchanged when particles with a color charge interact. When two quarks exchange a gluon, their color charges change; the gluon carries an anti-color charge to compensate for the quark's old color charge, as well as the quark's new color charge. Since gluons thus carry a color-charge themselves, they can also interact with other gluons, which makes the mathematical analysis of the strong nuclear force quite complicated and difficult.
The first experimental traces of gluons were found in the early 1980s at the electron-positron-collider PETRA at the DESY in Hamburg, when evidence for a clear three-jet structure was found; the third jet was attributed to one of the produced quarks emitting a gluon.
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| "Gluon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gluon" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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Ending with "gluon": three-gluon. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gluon | 20 |
quark gluon plasma | 10 |
gluon network | 9 |
gluon quark | 3 |
gluon muon | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "gluon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | gluon. (various references) | |
French | gluon. (various references) | |
German | Gluon. (various references) | |
Italian | gluon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uonglay.(various references) | |
Spanish | gluón. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gluon": gluons. (additional references) | |
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"Gluon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glenoo, gleo, glien, glio, gloan, Glocon, gloin, glon, gloon, glooz, glown, gluom, gluton, golowan, Grunox, gulan, Gulon, luon, luonn. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: long, lung. | |
-2 letters: gnu, gul, gun, log, lug, nog. | |
-3 letters: go, lo, no, nu, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: gluons, lanugo, lounge, loungy, unclog. | |
+2 letters: blowgun, eugenol, fouling, furlong, glutton, goldurn, gunlock, languor, lanugos, lounged, lounger, lounges, louping, louring, lousing, louting, songful, sunglow, unclogs, unglove, ungodly. | |
+3 letters: analogue, angulose, angulous, blousing, blowguns, bludgeon, bungalow, bunghole, clangour, clouding, clouring, clouting, conjugal, coupling, doubling, eugenols, flouring, flouting, foulings, furlongs, globulin, glouting, glucagon, gluttons, gluttony, goldurns, gunkhole, gunlocks, hulloing, jelutong, jongleur, languors, ligneous, longspur, longueur, loungers, lounging, lungworm, lungwort, moulding, moulting, nonguilt, outlying, shogunal, sunglows, tousling, touzling, ungloved, ungloves, unloving, voluming, wrongful. | |
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