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gluonic

gluonic adjective: of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.

Adjective

gluonic (comparative more gluonic, superlative most gluonic)

  1. 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...1993 August, 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

Examples of gluonic in a sentence

  • 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, Madhusree Mukerjee, “CEBAF readies its electron beam for studies of nucleons and nuclei”, in Physics Today, volume 46, number...
  • A hybrid meson is one with that strong gluonic field being excited.2017 May 3, Cheyenne MacDonald, quoting Curtis Meyer, “Department of Energy's Virginia accelerator reveals breakthrough in detecting...

Forms of gluonic

comparativemore gluonic
superlativemost gluonic

Origin of gluonic

From gluon + -ic.

Words formed from gluonic

Questions about gluonic

What does gluonic mean?
Gluonic means of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
How do you use gluonic in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is gluonic?
Gluonic is an adjective.

Words near gluonic in the dictionary

  1. Glunts
  2. gluodynamic
  3. gluodynamics
  4. gluon
  5. gluonia
  6. gluonic
  7. gluonics
  8. gluonium
  9. gluoniums
  10. gluonlike
  11. gluons

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