Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a quark–antiquark pair, respectively. Here, we report the observation of a hadronic state containing four quarks in the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment. This so-called tetraquark contains two charm quarks, a anti-u and a anti-d quark. This exotic state has a mass of approximately 3,875 MeV and manifests as a narrow peak in the mass spectrum of D0 D0 π+ mesons just below the D*+ D0 mass threshold. The near-threshold mass together with the narrow width reveals the resonance nature of the state.

Observation of an Exotic Narrow Doubly Charmed Tetraquark

Calabrese, R.;Capriotti, L.;Couturier, B.;Fiorini, M.;Franzoso, E.;Giugliano, C.;Guarise, M.;Kotriakhova, S.;Luppi, E.;Neri, I.;Okamura, S.;Pappalardo, L. L.;Passalacqua, B.;Tomassetti, L.;
2022

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Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a quark–antiquark pair, respectively. Here, we report the observation of a hadronic state containing four quarks in the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment. This so-called tetraquark contains two charm quarks, a anti-u and a anti-d quark. This exotic state has a mass of approximately 3,875 MeV and manifests as a narrow peak in the mass spectrum of D0 D0 π+ mesons just below the D*+ D0 mass threshold. The near-threshold mass together with the narrow width reveals the resonance nature of the state.
2022
Aaij, R.; Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.; Abellán Beteta, C.; Abudinen Gallego, F. J.; Ackernley, T.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M.; Afsharnia, H.; Agapopoulou, C....espandi
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