glueball
*klingon
You can tell China discovered it because they didn’t name it some ridiculous thing like Infineon or Ultimatrix
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.
yeah a new particle discovery would be huge
A candidate for dark matter!
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.
These masses are on the same order of magnitude as the masses of many experimentally observed mesons and baryons, as well as to the masses of the tau lepton, charm quark, bottom quark, some hydrogen isotopes, and some helium isotopes.
bottom quark
