Bound to charm: «Charmonium»
pentaquarks discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, might contain five quarks tightly bound together (as shown) or more loosely bound into a baryon, containing three quarks, and a meson, consisting of t
Not exact matches
Despite being predicted in the 1960s, the
pentaquark is a particle so elusive even the world's largest physics experiment could only
discover it by accident
No such particle has ever been seen; however, a five - part
pentaquark was
discovered in July (see «New Matter Detected at Japanese Accelerator,» page 45).