Quantum Chromodynamics

Accepted · 1973

Status: Accepted
Year: 1973

Summary

The strong force, carried by gluons between colour-charged quarks. Its strange signature is that the force grows with distance, so a quark can never be pulled out on its own.

Timeline

Quark Confinement Quark Epoch

Equations

Standard Model Lagrangian Klein–Gordon Equation

Proponent

David Gross Murray Gell-Mann Frank Wilczek

Referenced by

equation

Klein–Gordon Equation Standard Model Lagrangian

event

Quark Confinement Quark Epoch

researcher

David Gross Frank Wilczek Murray Gell-Mann

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