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Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

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Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
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Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons predicted by quantum theory. The results appeared in a preprint posted to arXiv last month and were also presented last week at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP).
All the stuff we see around us is made up of quarks held together by gluons (carriers of the nuclear strong for

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