Physicists Find Strong Evidence for Elusive 'Glueball' Particle
A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'
After nearly two decades of searching, a team at China's BESIII experiment has presented compelling evidence that a particle called X(2370) is a glueball—a particle made entirely of gluons, the force-carrying particles that bind quarks together. The findings, announced at a conference in Brazil, could confirm a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics and shed light on how mass arises.
It is quite convincing evidence.
- lorenzohess
> After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball, which is made entirely of force-carrying particles.
> ... The discovery of glueballs would provide direct evidence that gluons can interact with themselves, researchers say. This is a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics
- chasil
- 4mitkumar
This led me on a 1.5 hours long, entertaining chat session with Gemini learning about stuff in Physics - hopefully without much hallucinations. But definitely with a lot of typical - "You have arrived at a great insight.." like egging on by the AI :D
But learned a bunch about bosons, fermions, QCD, gluons, Kugelblitz, composite bosons and finally Noether’s Theorem on symmetry. Was a wild ride
- bronlund
Oh no. A new particle. Who would have guessed %]
- cat-whisperer
are we going to have force-fields now?