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The 36 pages that link to Gluon, each with the reason it gives.

• PhotonCompared with: Unlike photons, gluons carry the charge of the force they mediate.

• ProtonRelated: Gluons transmit the strong interaction that confines the proton’s quarks.

• Quantum chromodynamicsBroader topic: Gluons mediate the force and interact with one another because they carry color.

• HadronRelated: Gluons transmit the strong force binding quarks inside hadrons.

• Strong interactionBroader topic: Gluons transmit the interaction and interact with one another.

• Color chargeRelated: Gluons carry color charge and transfer it between quarks.

• Deep inelastic scatteringBroader topic: Gluons affect measured distributions through radiation and splitting into quark pairs.

• BaryonRelated: Gluons bind baryon constituents through the strong interaction.

• BosonBroader topic: Gluons are bosons that carry color charge and bind quarks inside hadrons.

• MesonRelated: Gluons transmit the strong force inside mesons.

• W and Z bosonsCompared with: Gluons carry color charge, unlike the electroweak bosons.

• PionCompared with: Gluons mediate QCD directly, unlike composite pions exchanged between nucleons.

• NucleonRelated: Gluons bind a nucleon's quarks and generate much of its mass.

• Asymptotic freedomRelated: Gluon self-interactions drive the coupling to weaken at short distances.

• Color confinementBroader topic: Gluon self-interactions help make the force between color charges grow with distance.

• HadronizationRelated: Gluons participate in parton showers and can themselves produce hadrons.

• Gauge bosonBroader topic: Gluons mediate the strong force and also interact with one another.

• ATLAS experimentRelated: Gluons contribute to proton collisions and produce hadronic jets recorded by ATLAS.

• Strong nuclear forceBroader topic: Gluon dynamics underlie the binding of quarks within each nucleon.

• Jet (particle physics)Related: A gluon can initiate a jet and often produces a wider shower than a quark.

• Parton modelBroader topic: Gluons carry part of a hadron's momentum and generate additional partons.

• PETRABroader topic: Three-jet events at PETRA provided compelling evidence for the gluon.

• CharmoniumRelated: Gluon exchange and fields mediate the force binding charm and anticharm.

• Strange quarkRelated: Gluons bind strange quarks with other quarks inside hadrons.

• Up quarkRelated: Gluon exchange binds up quarks to the other quarks in a nucleon.

• David GrossBroader topic: Gluon self-interactions make the strong force weaken at short distances.

• Down quarkRelated: Gluon exchange continually binds and reshuffles the color charges of quarks.

• Quark epochBroader topic: Gluons carried the strong force throughout the hot plasma.

• Massless particleBroader topic: Gluons are massless in the Standard Model, though confinement prevents their isolation.

• PartonBroader topic: Gluons are partons and carry a substantial share of hadron momentum.

• QCD vacuumRelated: Gluon fields fluctuate in the vacuum and generate its nonperturbative structure.

• Force carrierBroader topic: Eight gluon types carry the strong interaction between quarks.

• Henry Way KendallRelated: Gluons complete the modern picture of nucleons that the early experiments began to uncover.

• Hugh David PolitzerRelated: Gluon self-interactions make the strong coupling decrease at high energies.

• J/ψ mesonRelated: The charm pair can annihilate into gluons, a principal J/ψ decay route.

• QCD matterBroader topic: Gluons bind quarks in hadrons and contribute directly to plasma dynamics.