Is there such a thing as an anti-gluon?

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Gluons are confirmed to be their own antiparticles, each carrying a color and an anti-color, such as red anti-blue, with their antiparticles being blue anti-red. The discussion highlights the anticipation surrounding the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) findings regarding the Higgs boson, expected to be confirmed by the end of 2012 at a mass of 125 GeV. Following the Higgs discovery, research will shift towards investigating the existence of gravitons and exploring the implications of supersymmetry at the TeV scale. The conversation also touches on the representation of gluon states within the octet model.

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Since every fundamental particle in the Standard Model should have it's anti-counterpart?

Also, after the LHC has (if they will ever will) found the Higgs boson, will they start looking for the graviton?
 
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Michio, Good to hear from you. Gluons are their own antiparticles. Each gluon carries a color and an anti-color. So a particular gluon could be for example, labelled red anti-blue. Its antiparticle would then be another gluon labelled blue anti-red.

We expect to have enough data by the end of 2012 to tell whether the signal at 125 GeV is really the Higgs boson. Assuming it does, there will be a great amount of work done to study it and determine if it really has all the expected properties. Beyond the Higgs, the LHC will hopefully provide evidence either for or against the existence of supersymmetry at the TeV scale.
 
What about gravitons? Must we attempt to prove their existence?
 
Also, what is the difference between:

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and

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They represent 2 states in the gluon octet.
 
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