New Evidence Points to the Discovery of Glueballs in Physics
- Physicists working with the Beijing Spectrometer III experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence supporting the existence of glueballs, according to a preprint posted to arXiv.
- Everything visible in the universe is built from quarks held together by gluons, which act as the carriers of the nuclear strong force to form protons and neutrons...
- The latest findings from the Beijing Spectrometer III collaboration surfaced in a preprint published on arXiv.
Physicists working with the Beijing Spectrometer III experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence supporting the existence of glueballs, according to a preprint posted to arXiv. The elusive composite particles are made entirely of gluons and represent a direct prediction of quantum chromodynamics, the theory governing the strong nuclear force.
What Are Glueballs and Why Do They Matter?
Everything visible in the universe is built from quarks held together by gluons, which act as the carriers of the nuclear strong force to form protons and neutrons at the core of atoms. While the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 filled a major gap in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, fundamental questions remain regarding whether glueballs actually exist. According to theoretical predictions derived from the Standard Model, these pure gauge boson bound states should not only exist, but multiple distinct kinds of glueballs should be observable.
New Experimental Data From BES III
The latest findings from the Beijing Spectrometer III collaboration surfaced in a preprint published on arXiv. Researchers also presented the data at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.