Gluon

Gluon

Standard model of particle physics
Large Hadron Collider tunnel at CERN
Background Particle physics
Standard Model
Quantum field theory
Gauge theory
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Higgs mechanism
Constituents Electroweak interaction
Quantum chromodynamics
CKM matrix
Limitations Strong CP problem
Hierarchy problem
Neutrino oscillations
See also: Physics beyond the Standard Model
Scientists Rutherford · Thomson · Chadwick · Bose · Sudarshan · Koshiba · Davis, Jr. · Anderson · Fermi · Dirac · Feynman · Rubbia · Gell-Mann · Kendall · Taylor · Friedman · Powell · Glashow · Meer · Cowan · Nambu · Wilson · Chamberlain · Cabibbo · Schwartz · Perl · Majorana · Weinberg · Lee · Salam · Kobayashi · Maskawa · Yang · Yukawa · 't Hooft · Veltman · Gross · Politzer · Wilczek · Cronin · Fitch · Vleck · Higgs · Englert · Brout · Hagen · Guralnik · Kibble · Ting · Richter

Gluons ( /ˈɡluːɒnz/; from English glue) are elementary particles that act as the exchange particles (or gauge bosons) for the strong force between quarks, analogous to the exchange of photons in the electromagnetic force between two charged particles.

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