How to Use gluon in a Sentence

gluon

noun

• There is a field for each of the particles in nature, from common particles such as electrons and photons to their more exotic cousins such as muons and gluons.
  — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• Because protons are messy bags of smaller particles known as quarks and gluons, smashing them together releases only a fraction of the proton’s total energy.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• The team then looked for traces of the charm quark and traced its history of gluon emissions.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2022
• Then in 1990, Steven Weinberg found a way to connect the world of quarks and gluons to sticky nuclei.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Then in 1990, Steven Weinberg found a way to connect the world of quarks and gluons to sticky nuclei.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
• Each proton and neutron is made up of even tinier quarks and gluons.
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
• And finally, interactions between the quarks and the gluons produce the rest of the mass.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• What surprised the researchers was that the flow of quark-gluon plasma caught the heavy D-zero particles.
  — NBC News, 12 June 2017
• The idea for the particle first emerged in the late 1970s, in an effort to solve a different puzzle relating to quarks and gluons.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
• Scientists haven't been able to find this quark-gluon plasma, until now.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• The gluons then connect protons with neutrons to form a nucleus.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• The building blocks of atoms, protons and neutrons, are composed of a collection of particles called quarks and gluons.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
• The total number of quarks and gluons inside a proton is always changing.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• But there’s much more—protons and neutrons are made up of quarks held together by gluons, one of several types of boson.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• Instead, quarks and gluons mingled freely in a dense soup until things cooled down sufficiently for protons to condense out of the QGP.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 May 2020
• But in this special kind of collision, the number of gluons exchanged is important.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
• The proton is a collection of quarks and gluons moving at relativistic speeds around a central point.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
• Physicists can now calculate how pressure and density would have evolved from the quark-gluon plasma at the beginning of the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• Bosons include photons, the particles of light and the force carriers of electromagnetism, and gluons, the particles that convey the strong force.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• There are also three fields of force: electromagnetism with its particles, the photons; the strong nuclear force with its gluons; and the weak nuclear force with its W and Z bosons.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• Instead, space was exclusively filled with quark-gluon plasma, or quark soup.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2018
• Instead, it was first used to explain how protons and neutrons are made of elementary particles called quarks and gluons.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
• In April 2023 Brookhaven scientists will turn on the latest experiment designed to study quark-gluon plasma.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• Or take gluons, particles that convey the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019
• Quark-gluon plasma: A state in which protons and neutrons dissolve into their constituent quarks, which can move freely among particles called gluons that carry the strong force.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• Then there are dozens of particles made up of those elementary particles, including hadrons, which are constructed of quarks and gluons, and mesons, made of a quark and anti-quark.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 June 2018
• Quarks and gluons are two such elementary particles that combine to form protons and neutrons.
  — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
• She had just delivered an invited lecture about the discovery of gluons at a symposium to honor the 50th birthday of the Standard Model.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2018
• And the study of the universe’s most exotic features, such as the quark-gluon plasma that may be at the heart of neutron stars, requires scientists to first make them in particle accelerators.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
• According to the standard model of particle physics, every proton and neutron consists of three quarks, which are held together by gluons.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024