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Gluon
Gluons
are
elementary particles
that act as the exchange particles (or
gauge bosons
) for the
strong force
between
quarks
, analogous to the exchange of
photons
in the
electromagnetic force
between two
charged particles
. In layman terms, they "glue" quarks together, forming
protons
and
neutrons
.
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