{"id":991391,"date":"2026-08-09T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/991391\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:58:20","slug":"what-is-a-glueball-chinese-led-team-finds-rare-particle-made-entirely-of-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/991391\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic breakthrough, a Chinese-led international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3263776\/did-scientists-just-find-first-ever-glueball-using-beijings-particle-collider?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">glueball<\/a> \u2013 a rare form of matter made entirely of force.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The finding was announced by a Chinese research team on Thursday at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Natal, Brazil. Held every two years, the event features some of the most significant advancements in the field.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team includes around 700 scientists from 15 countries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Glueballs are made of gluons \u2013 particles that act as force carriers to \u201cglue\u201d quarks together into larger particles such as protons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons make up atoms, the fundamental building blocks of all matter in the universe \u2013 from human bodies to everyday objects.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For 50 years, scientists have predicted that gluons could bind together into glueballs because, unlike photons, they attract each other while carrying the strong force. However, evidence supporting the hypothesis remained elusive until the scientists presented it at the conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese-led team used the collider to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3260424\/china-can-build-largest-collider-earth-says-cern-president?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">smash electrons<\/a> and their antiparticles together at near light speed to produce J\/psi particles. When these short-lived particles decay, they provide an ideal environment for hunting glueballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a historic breakthrough, a Chinese-led international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of the glueball \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":991392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25],"tags":[397496,4214,9191,397495,397494,397498,397501,397500,397499,56788,397493,492,16706,159,279034,397497,294490,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-991391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-beijing-electron-positron-collider-ii","tag-brazil","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-chinese-research-team","tag-guangming-daily","tag-huang-yanping","tag-international-conference-on-high-energy-physics","tag-j-psi-particles","tag-jin-shan","tag-nanjing-university","tag-natal","tag-physics","tag-protons-and-neutrons","tag-science","tag-strong-force","tag-the-glueball","tag-the-physical-world","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117066616695733700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}