Re: How would matter react under a beam of gluons?

Date: Tue Oct 10 10:18:42 2006
Posted By: Jerrold Franklin, Professor Emeritus
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1159655793.Ph

Message:


As you probably know our current understanding of QCD is that a beam of 
gluons could not actually be produced because of a property called "color 
confinement".  If such a beam did exist, it would interact violently with 
matter, producing a large burst of strongly interacting particles.

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