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.
Matter consists of quarks and electrons.
Matter consists of shit and it’s used to make other shit
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… !!
Super glue or Crazy glue?
