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.
Headline:
Matter from nothing
Content:
held together by gluons.
😒
Link to paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20366
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.
If we can snort it… !!
No, you need XX for that.
Now I’m not sure if that’s too many X’s, or not enough X’s.
You just need “Chemical X”
Sounds like a powerful combination.
Puffy though
Matter consists of quarks and electrons.
Super glue or Crazy glue?
