Growth in the zoo of particles: An Exotic car with four times the charm

Quarks, the count, such as electrons, to the elementary building blocks of matter, not only in the Form of groups of Two or three. An international group of researchers met in the accelerator experiments at the European research centres Cern, near Geneva, for the umpteenth Time on an exotic particle is clearly made up of four Quarks.

Manfred Lindinger

editor in the Department “nature and science”.

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what’s Unusual about this Tetra quark is that it is composed of four Quarks of the same variety, namely, the two heavy Charm Quarks and two Anti-Charm-Quarks. So far, we only knew Tetra-quarks, the existence of at least two different varieties of Quarks, for example from an Up Quark, an Anti-Down Quark and a Charm and Anti-Charm Quark. Physicists at Cern have their new arrival, which is seven times as heavy as the Proton and only a fraction of a second, lives, X(6900) baptized, with the number indicating in brackets the mass of the particle (6900 million electron volts).

the standard model of particle physics dictates quite closely to the behavior of the basic building blocks of matter have. Thereafter, the Quarks – of which there are a total of six species occur – always second or third, but never alone. Protons and neutrons of the atomic nuclei are composed of, for example, made of three Quarks, mesons, such as Kaons and Pions from a Quark-Antiquark Pair.

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In recent years, experiments at various particle accelerators that Quarks also of four and groups of five and even six groups.

The corresponding subatomic particles are referred to as Tetra-, Penta -, and Hexaquarks. However, you had observed so far, no grouping of identical Quarks. Theoretically, such an exotic quark systems, however, are quite possible.

As the groups of researchers – including physicists from Aachen, Dortmund and Heidelberg in the Online database arXiv.org published reports, they discovered the Tetra-quark during the Sifting of records, which they had obtained in measurements with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) between 2009 and 2013, and between 2015 and 2018 at the LHCb Experiment. They had to leave the energy-rich hydrogen nuclei collide, and the properties of the produced secondary particles are measured. The researchers were able to determine during the analysis of data in an energy range of 6.9 Giga-electron volts, a resonance – like Elevation in the number of registered J/Psi-mesons-mesons consist of a Charm – anti-charm Pair. The significance of the measured signal to provide the physicist with more than five Sigma, which corresponds to a probability of 99.9999 percent, that is a real Signal, and thus to a discovery.

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