gluonic
adjEtymology From gluon + -ic.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
- The two steps in the gluing of matter—quarks into nucleons, and nucleons into nuclei—remain mysterious, and both will be investigated at cebaf. A series of experiments on hadronic excitations will probe the consistent quark model; others will look for gluonic states or for strange quarks inside the proton or neutron.1993 August 23, Madhusree Mukerjee, “CEBAF readies its electron beam for studies of nucleons and nuclei”, in Physics Today, volume 46, number 8, →DOI, page 19:
- GlueX is an experiment located at the Jefferson Lab, whose purpose is to study nuclear confinement by mapping the spectrum of exotic mesons generated by the excitation of the gluonic field binding the quarks.2014 March 25, Leo Williams, “Titan Project explores the smallest building blocks of matter”, in Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
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- A hybrid meson is one with that strong gluonic field being excited. We hope to show that this ‘excited’ gluonic field is an important constituent of matter.2017 May 3, Cheyenne MacDonald, quoting Curtis Meyer, “Department of Energy's Virginia accelerator reveals breakthrough in detecting potential new form of matter”, in Daily Mail:
- Derived terms
- multigluonic