A Particle Purely Made of Nuclear Force

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In these sketches, the spheres represent quarks while the wavy lines represent the strong nuclear force mediated by gluons. If new calculations are correct, an already observed particle -- the f0(1710) meson -- is represented by sketch on the right: a composite particle, a glueball, made entirely of gluons.

A Particle Purely Made of Nuclear Force

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) have calculated that the meson f0(1710) could be a very special particle – the long-sought-after glueball, a particle composed of pure force.

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