Particle Physicist confirms the presence of Odderon

Context:

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the DØ Collaboration at Fermilab have found strong new evidence for the odderon, an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost five decades ago.

About

• In 1973, two French particle physicists found that, according to their calculations, there was a previously unknown quasi-particle.
• The Odderon particle is what briefly forms when protons collide in high-energy collisions, and in some cases do not shatter, but bounce off one another and scatter.
• Protons are made up of quarks and gluons, that briefly form Odderon and Pomeron particles.

What is the LHC?

• The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
• It first started up on 10 September 2008 and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex.
• The LHC consists of a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.
• The beams inside the LHC are made to collide at four locations around the accelerator ring, corresponding to the positions of four particle detectors – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb.