Do We Observe Gluons Experimentally?

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Do we observe the gluons experimentally? or they are just virtual bosons ?
 
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We don't see them as isolated particles, in the same way we cannot see isolated quarks. They do appear as "nearly" real particles in hard interactions, however.
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