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Nothing strange about this pentaquark’s ‘strangeness’

The Large Hadron Collider yields a five-quark particle that includes a ‘strange’ quark, as predicted by theory.
LHCb particle-detector magnet.

Scientists used the enormous magnet of the LHCb detector to catch a glimpse of a pentaquark. Credit: CERN/SPL

Physicists have announced the discovery of a new type of pentaquark1.

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Nature 619, 675 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02258-5

References

  1. LHCb Collaboration. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031901 (2023).

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