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   On Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 8:17:13 AM UTC-5, James Goetz wrote:   
   > Gluons bond quarks into baryons (i.e., protons and neutrons). For   
   > example, two up quarks and one down quark form a proton while one up   
   > quark and two down quarks form a neutron. Is there one gluon per one   
   > baryon or two gluons per one baryon or what is the ratio of gluons to   
   > baryons?   
      
   If you or I could definitively answer this question a Nobel prize would   
   be next. In a perturbation series there are various orders. The lowest   
   order has each quark in a baryon connected by a gluon. So that is one   
   gluon per quark, which are sometimes called baryons, or for say the   
   proton there are 3 gluons per proton. However, to higher order there are   
   loops and higher hbar corrections and these are amplitudes with more   
   gluons. The higher order diagrams are a tangle or mesh of gluons. Also   
   at higher orders quark-antiquark pairs come into play.   
      
   QCD has a vast solution space, and perturbative QCD lets us look at some   
   tiny slices or are like small paths in it. The solution space in its   
   entirety is a vast unknown.   
      
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