Can Individual Gluons Be Extracted from a Nucleus?

[Physicist50]

I was wondering if it was possible to extract individual gluons from a nucleus, and if so, how?

 

[DennisN]

Have a look at this:

• Quark confinement
• Color charge
• http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/08/hot-stuff-cern-physicists-create-record-breaking-subatomic-soup.html
• Glueballs (note: hypotethical)

 

[DarMM]

I was wondering if it was possible to extract individual gluons from a nucleus, and if so, how?

It is not possible to extract individual gluons. Gluons don't exist as independent propagating particles at low tempertures. At the tempertures where they do exist, atomic nuclie don't exist.

 

[Charles Wilson]

http://www.frankwilczek.com/Wilczek_Easy_Pieces/298_QCD_Made_Simple.pdf

CW