{"id":109515,"date":"2020-07-04T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/physicists-discover-exotic-new-tetraquark-particle-weve-never-seen-before"},"modified":"2020-07-04T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:03:12","slug":"physicists-discover-exotic-new-tetraquark-particle-weve-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/physicists-discover-exotic-new-tetraquark-particle-weve-never-seen-before","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover Exotic, New \u2018Tetraquark\u2019 Particle We\u2019ve Never Seen Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-exotic-new-tetraquark-particle-weve-never-seen-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new exotic subatomic particle on the atom smasher. Physicists working with CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration have found a new form of the elusive four-quark particle called a tetraquark that they have never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The newly identified particle is made up of four quarks of the same flavour and is likely, scientists say, to be the first of a previously undiscovered class of particles.<\/p>\n<p>The paper describing it has been <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.16957\">uploaded to arXiv<\/a>, and is yet to be peer-reviewed, but joins a growing body of evidence supporting the existence of exotic particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new exotic subatomic particle on the atom smasher. Physicists working with CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration have found a new form of the elusive four-quark particle called a tetraquark that they have never seen before. The newly identified particle is made up of four quarks of the same flavour and is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}