<div dir="ltr"><div>"Scientists predicted the existence of the particle, known as the
odderon, in 1973, describing it as a rare, short-lived conjointment of
three smaller particles known as gluons. Since then, researchers have
suspected that the odderon might appear when protons slammed together at
extreme speeds, but the precise conditions that would make it spring
into existence remained a mystery. Now, after comparing data from the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the 17-mile-long (27 kilometers)
ring-shaped atom smasher near Geneva that's famous for discovering the
Higgs boson, and the Tevatron, a now-defunct 3.9-mile-long (6.3 km)
American collider that slammed protons and their antimatter twins
(antiprotons) together in Illinois until 2011, researchers report
conclusive evidence of the odderon's existence." <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.livescience.com/ultra-rare-odderon-particle-detected.html">https://www.livescience.com/ultra-rare-odderon-particle-detected.html</a></div></div>