Physicists in the US and Israel have hailed the Chinese-led team's evidence for the glueball, a particle made purely of the strong force, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday. Independent confirmation is still outstanding.
A glueball is a form of matter made entirely of force rather than of ordinary particles of substance. Its existence has been a claim for physicists to establish rather than an observed fact, which is why a confirmation is treated as a landmark in particle physics.
The South China Morning Post reported on Sunday that physicists in the United States and Israel have hailed as a triumph the strongest evidence yet for the glueball, presented by a Chinese-led team. The particle consists purely of the strong force, and independent confirmation is still outstanding.
An international team led by Chinese scientists has confirmed the glueball, a rare form of matter made entirely of force, the South China Morning Post reported. The newspaper calls the finding a historic breakthrough in the physics of the strong nuclear force.