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Gluon are reponsible for the mass of a proton but the higg boson are the responsible for the mass of a gluon?

I m kinda of lost with the higgs boson, first i was thinking that the higg field was the responsible for the mass of all the particles but apparently its not? Quarks take their mass from this field but proton take only 12 MEV of their mass from quarks so 926 MEV from the gluon?
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Gluons are massless.

Protons and neutrons get a percent or so of their mass from the Higgs effect (which gives a small mass to the up and down quarks), and the rest of their mass from the strong force fields (primarily) that bind those quarks together (and the strong force field is made of gluons).

Finally: the Higgs boson does not give any particles mass. The Higgs effect causes certain particles to get a mass by their interaction with the Higgs field that fills space.  The Higgs boson itself and the Higgs field that fills space are both consequences of the fact that there is a fundamental Higgs field.