{"id":120866,"date":"2021-03-24T23:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/cern-physicists-discover-four-new-tetraquarks"},"modified":"2021-03-24T23:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:22:48","slug":"cern-physicists-discover-four-new-tetraquarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/cern-physicists-discover-four-new-tetraquarks","title":{"rendered":"CERN Physicists Discover Four New Tetraquarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-physicists-discover-four-new-tetraquarks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed four new exotic particles: Z<sub>cs <\/sub>(4000)<sup>+<\/sup>, Z<sub>cs <\/sub>(4220)<sup>+<\/sup>, X(4685), and X(4630). The new results provide grist for the mill of theorists seeking to explain the nature of tetraquark binding mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHadrons discovered in the 1950-60s, the pioneering years in particle physics history, were called elementary particles till their structure was finally understood in the framework of quark model,\u201d the LHCb physicists said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed four new exotic particles: Zcs (4000)+, Zcs (4220)+, X(4685), and X(4630). The new results provide grist for the mill of theorists seeking to explain the nature of tetraquark binding mechanisms. \u201cHadrons discovered in the 1950-60s, the pioneering years in particle physics history, [\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-120866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120866","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=120866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}