The Gluon - Does It Exhibit Wave Properties? 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.
 A: 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.
A: 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.
A: 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.
A: 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.
