English Explanatory Dictionary

gluon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡluː.ɒn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gluon.wav /ˈɡlu.ɑn/

Word forms

gluon gluons

Etymology

From glue + -on. From being a particle (suffix "-on") that "glues" (attracts) together particles that feel the force carried by the gluon. Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.

Derived words

antigluon axigluon digluon glueball gluino gluodynamics gluonic gluonics gluonium gluonstrahlung hypergluon leptogluon multigluon quark-gluon plasma quasigluon sgluon technigluon trigluon
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