What Are Glue-Ons?

The standard model says glue-ons should be able to come together and make this weird thing. We call a glue ball. So it's a theoretical or a predicted object that can happen out in nature. And so the glue-on is the particle that carries the strong force. For example, how do you make a proton? When you make it out of up quarks and down quarks,. You use gluons. Inside the proton is not just up quarks & down quarks, there's a whole mess of gluons - they're holding it together.