Matter consists of quarks. The building blocks of atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons, are composed of these fundamental particles – held together by gluons. These act as glue (English glue = Klebstoff) and hold the quarks together. However, the theory of the strong nuclear force predicts something else: gluons should also be able to bind to each other – forming so-called “gluon balls”, particles without any quark content, essentially matter made of pure cohesion.
Physicists have been searching for this state for decades. Now, the Beijing Spectrometer(BESIII) collaboration reports in a preprint on arXiv and a presentation at the International Conference on High Energy Physics. The particle X(2370) is most likely predominantly composed of a gluon ball.
Link to paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20366
Headline:
Matter from nothing
Content:
held together by gluons.
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Nicely written article. Sounds promising, and the measurements strongly match the theory.
I do wonder if X isn’t necessarily including quarks of a consistent colour though; this could influence the decay paths.
I’m wondering if you could combine X with sugar and spice and everything nice.
Sounds like a powerful combination.
Puffy though
No, you need XX for that.
You just need “Chemical X”
Now I’m not sure if that’s too many X’s, or not enough X’s.
Two X chromosomes make a little girl…they’re made of sugar and spice and everything nice.
If we can snort it… !!
Matter consists of quarks and electrons.
Matter consists of shit and it’s used to make other shit
Super glue or Crazy glue?
