My name is Elena Long.
I’m a graduate student at Kent State University doing research at Jefferson Lab.
Gluons are particles that hold together protons and neutrons.
Each of them [protons and neutrons] are made up of smaller things 
called quarks and gluons.  
And gluons are a force carrier.  
So they’re analogous to...
If you put a magnet on the refrigerator, 
The magnet gets held to the refrigerator through electromagnetism.
Gluons are those things that hold the quarks together inside of protons and neutrons.
So they hold protons and neutrons together much stronger than magnetism does.
