{"id":88992,"date":"2019-03-28T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-discover-a-mysterious-new-class-of-particles-containing-five-quarks"},"modified":"2019-03-28T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:02:36","slug":"physicists-discover-a-mysterious-new-class-of-particles-containing-five-quarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-discover-a-mysterious-new-class-of-particles-containing-five-quarks","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover a Mysterious New Class of Particles Containing Five Quarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-a-mysterious-new-class-of-particles-containing-five-quarks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything you see around you is made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-what-are-fundamental-particles-38339\">elementary particles<\/a> called quarks and leptons, which can combine to form bigger particles such as protons or atoms.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t make them boring \u2013 these subatomic particles can also combine in exotic ways we\u2019ve never spotted.<\/p>\n<p>Now CERN\u2019s LHCb collaboration <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/news\/news\/physics\/lhcb-experiment-discovers-new-pentaquark\">has announced the discovery<\/a> of a clutch of new particles dubbed \u201cpentaquarks\u201d. The results can help unveil many mysteries of the theory of quarks, a key part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"standard model\">standard model<\/a> of particle physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cern-adds-mysterious-pentaquark-particles-to-the-growing-family-of-matter\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cern-adds-mysterious-pentaquark...-of-matter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you see around you is made up of elementary particles called quarks and leptons, which can combine to form bigger particles such as protons or atoms. But that doesn\u2019t make them boring \u2013 these subatomic particles can also combine in exotic ways we\u2019ve never spotted. Now CERN\u2019s LHCb collaboration has announced the discovery of [\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-88992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88992","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=88992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}