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Chinese researchers confirm existence of glueball – a new form of matter (news.cgtn.com)

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The standard model of particle physics holds that gluons can attract each other and bind together to form an entirely new kind of particle – the glueball. However, such a particle had not been discovered in any previous experiments.

this is potentially big, actually.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

yeah a new particle discovery would be huge

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, the linked article is spectacularly useless.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

it's from the full article. the site seems kind of bad, i can only read the full article from a phone.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, I'll skip it then. Thanks.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A candidate for dark matter!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 23 hours ago

I still think dark matter is kipple.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Maybe not impossible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueball#Mass_and_parity

Glueballs are predicted by quantum chromodynamics to be massive, despite the fact that gluons themselves have zero rest mass in the Standard Model.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago

bottom quark