gluonic

gluon +‎ -ic

gluonic (comparative more gluonic, superlative most gluonic)

1. (physics) Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
   • 1993 August 1, Madhusree Mukerjee, “CEBAF readies its electron beam for studies of nucleons and nuclei”, in Physics Today, volume 46, number 8, DOI:10.1063/1.2809000, page 19:

     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.

   • 2014 March 25, Leo Williams, “Titan Project explores the smallest building blocks of matter”, in Oak Ridge National Laboratory‎:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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