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‘Glueballs’ of pure force must exist – will we ever find them?

Edit New Scientist 16 Mar 2016
Want to make a lightsaber? Easy! Just find bundles of gluons – particles made entirely of force – to unleash your inner Skywalker ... ....

What Is a Glueball?

Edit About.com 31 Dec 2015
A glueball is a hypothetical particle made entirely of the strong nuclear force, as a composite particle consisting of bound gluons, rather than ordinary matter particles ... Since gluons contain no electrical charge, glueballs would also have a net electrical charge of 0. Predictions of Glueballs ... Detecting Glueballs ... Physicists are relatively confident that glueballs exist ... Elusive Glueballs Possibly Found in Atom Smasher," Oct....

Glimpse of Possible New Particle Intrigues Physicists

Edit Yahoo Daily News 17 Dec 2015
The biggest particle accelerator in the world might have found a hint of an entirely new fundamental particle — or it might be seeing ghosts ... Nine have been posted so far ... Yasunori Nomura at the University of California, Berkeley, theorized that the odd double flash could be explained by a "glueball," a collection of analogues to a gluon ... The glueball would consist of a new kind that only appears at super-high energies....

Glueballs are the missing frontier of the Standard Model

Edit Ars Technica 21 Oct 2015
There should be particles made entirely of gluons, but we don't know how to find them ... ....

Researchers may have discovered unseen particle that holds others together

Edit The Daily Mail 20 Oct 2015
Scientists at the Technical University of Vienna, claim they have found a strong nuclear decay pattern, called f0(1710), that may prove the existence of so-called glueballs ... ....

Physicists Discover Particle Made Entirely Of Nuclear Force

Edit IFL Science 14 Oct 2015
a glueball. Glueballs are unstable particles made up entirely of gluons, the bosons that carry the nuclear force that makes protons and neutrons stick to each other inside atomic nuclei ... Unlike photons, there are eight different varieties of gluons and they can interact with each other to form bound states – the mysterious glueballs. Glueballs are made of pure force and they are too short-lived to be detected directly....

A Particle Purely Made of Nuclear Force (Technische Universität Wien)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2015
For decades, scientists have been looking for so-called 'glueballs' ... A glueball is an exotic particle, made up entirely of gluons - the 'sticky' particles that keep nuclear particles together. Glueballs are unstable and can only be detected indirectly, by analysing their decay ... Professor Anton Rebhan and Frederic Brünner from TU Wien (Vienna) have now employed a new theoretical approach to calculate glueball decay....

Exotic particle may have been discovered

Edit Science Daily 13 Oct 2015
Scientists have calculated that the meson f0(1710) could be a very special particle. the long-sought-after 'glueball', made up entirely of gluons -- the "sticky" particles that keep nuclear particles together ... ....

Art and science at the foundations of the universe (University of Saskatchewan)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Sep 2015
(Source. University of Saskatchewan). As Tom Steele explained it, mathematics can encompass concepts impossible to express in any spoken tongue ... "I don't see any reason why this should be ... "Once you have the idea of colour confinement, there are a whole bunch of different things you can do," Steele said, citing various odd combinations of quarks and even "glueballs" which are conglomerations of pure gluons....

Nine New Research Units, One New Clinical Research Unit (DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jul 2015
(Source. DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Topics Range from Chip Technology and Child Development to Debris Discs / Around €24.5 Million in Funding for the Next Three Years ... The new Research Units. (in alphabetical order by Host University) ... The particle physicists plan to measure charmonium in order to identify currently unknown but possible exotic states of matter such as glueballs, tetraquarks and meson molecules. (Spokesperson....
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