Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark

LHCb Collaboration

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Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a quark–antiquark pair, respectively^1,2. 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 u¯ and a d¯ quark. This exotic state has a mass of approximately 3,875 MeV and manifests as a narrow peak in the mass spectrum of D⁰D⁰π⁺ mesons just below the D^*+D⁰ mass threshold. The near-threshold mass together with the narrow width reveals the resonance nature of the state.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	751-754
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Physics
Volume	18
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01614-y
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2022

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Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark

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