{"id":91685,"date":"2019-06-06T05:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/official-lhc-results-have-finally-confirmed-the-structure-of-mysterious-pentaquarks"},"modified":"2019-06-06T05:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:24:01","slug":"official-lhc-results-have-finally-confirmed-the-structure-of-mysterious-pentaquarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/official-lhc-results-have-finally-confirmed-the-structure-of-mysterious-pentaquarks","title":{"rendered":"Official LHC Results Have Finally Confirmed The Structure of Mysterious Pentaquarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/official-lhc-results-have-finally-confirmed-the-structure-of-mysterious-pentaquarks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New results from the Large Hadron Collider have confirmed it. The mysterious five-quark subatomic particle \u2014 the pentaquark, only discovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-lhc-has-discovered-a-brand-new-class-of-particles\">few years ago<\/a> \u2014 really is composed of two sets of quarks.<\/p>\n<p>One is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meson\">meson<\/a>, a type of particle that contains a quark and antiquark pair; the other is a three-quark <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/cosmos\/B\/Baryons\">baryon<\/a>: the subatomic particle that makes up <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/cosmos\/B\/Baryonic+Matter\">most of the normal matter<\/a> in the Universe, including protons and electrons.<\/p>\n<p>This confirms that quarks aren\u2019t just chucked together like a loose bag of marbles, but instead are structured more similarly to the way protons and neutrons are bound in an atomic nucleus \u2014 what the researchers call a \u2018molecular\u2019 state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/official-results-have-finally-confirmed-the-structure-of-mysterious-pentaquarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New results from the Large Hadron Collider have confirmed it. The mysterious five-quark subatomic particle \u2014 the pentaquark, only discovered a few years ago \u2014 really is composed of two sets of quarks. One is a meson, a type of particle that contains a quark and antiquark pair; the other is a three-quark baryon: the [\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-91685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91685","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=91685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}