TOTEM and DØ collaborations announce odderon discovery
Date Time TOTEM and DØ collaborations announce odderon discovery Part of the TOTEM installation in the LHC tunnel 220 m downstream from the CMS experiment (Image: CERN) The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC, together with the DØ collaboration at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, have announced the discovery of the odderon – an elusive state of three fundamental particles called gluons that was predicted almost 50 years ago. The result was presented on Friday 5 March during a meeting at CERN, and follows the joint submission in December 2020 of a CERN/Fermilab pr...