Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider


An illustration of a pentaquark

An illustration of a pentaquark

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Researchers on the CERN particle physics laboratory’s Massive Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland have found a brand new sort of particle known as a wierd pentaquark. Discovering unique particles like this might assist us work out how hadrons – subatomic particles similar to protons and neutrons which can be made up of quarks – are held collectively.

Pentaquarks, true to their identify, are made up of 4 quarks and one antiquark, and they don’t seem to be anticipated to kind wherever in nature, making them terribly uncommon. “Normally typical hadrons are made up …