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A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

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Re: A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

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> 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

Re: A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

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> 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

> "quantum chromodynamics"

I had to google it: "the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons"

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