Physics Asked by Tim D on April 17, 2021
Do Gluons have frequencies and wavelengths? I assume that they do, but have been unable to find anything on point in SE or Wikipedia. Just beginning to study university-level physics here.
They do, just as all quantum objects do. They have momenta, and since they are massless, their frequency/wavelength/energy/momentum relations are the same as for photons.
But since you will never detect a free gluon, as they are color-charged and thus confined, this is not a sensible thing to say. Quantum objects are not waves (just as they are not classical particles), and if you cannot examine a free gluon, you cannot do something like the double-slit with it, and the "wavelength" you might want to associate with it is not really useful.
Correct answer by ACuriousMind on April 17, 2021
Yes gluons exhibit particle duality. The gluon has no mass, and therefore travels at the speed of light when created and annihilated in their exchange within the nucleons.
Answered by AlanZ2223 on April 17, 2021
Hadrons contain only virtual gluons, which do not obey the ordinary relationships between energy and wavelength. High energy collisions are required to create real gluons - which do.
Answered by akrasia on April 17, 2021
Mathematics equation says that the binding energy per quark is 309.76 Mev and the wave length is 4x10^-15 m. So if ever that wave length exist we are not able at this time to detect that small waves.
Answered by Noel Dela cruz on April 17, 2021
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