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  • n  a gauge boson that mediates strong interaction among quarks

  • In 1979 in Hamburg, West Germany, they discovered the gluon, which conveys the strong force.
  • In 1979 physicists working with an accelerator in West Germany found experimental evidence for the existence of the gluon, the strong-force carrier.
News & Articles

  • Big chill to understand quark-gluon plasma of early universe
    Run 14 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will feature a dramatic improvement in machine performance enabling detailed studies of the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe and its transition to the matter we see in the universe today.
    Feb. 3, 2014 - Science Daily
  • Big Chill Sets in as RHIC Physics Heats Up
    Run 14 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will feature a dramatic improvement in machine performance enabling detailed studies of the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe and its transition to the matter we see in the universe today.
    Feb. 3, 2014 - Newswise
Quotes

  • John Cramer in EurekAlert (press release)
    We expected to bring the nuclear liquid to a boil and produce a steam of quark-gluon plasma,Cramer said. "Instead, the boiler seems to be blowing up in our faces."
  • Doris Lessing in Los Angeles Times
    What I would like to be writing,Lessing wrote in 1983, "is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon,...

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