Long-searched-for glueball could soon be detected
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —While the Higgs boson may be the most famous elusive particle in particle physics, a lesser known particle that has continued to elude even the most powerful high-energy experiments to date is the glueball, named because it consists of two or more gluons. Now in a new paper, physicists have calculated the masses of two probable glueballs and analyzed their possible production and decay modes. Their findings have led them to predict that the long-searched-for glueball may soon be detected, possibly by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or one of a handful of other experiments.