Physicists Discover Particle Made Entirely Of Nuclear Force

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Scientists at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology) believe they have found a very elusive particle: 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.