quantum chromodynamics
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1. a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | quantum field theory, |
| definition | : | the branch of quantum physics that is concerned with the theory of fields; it was motivated by the question of how an atom radiates light as its electrons jump from excited states (noun.cognition) |
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