Two separate groups, both reporting in Physical Review Letters, have seen evidence for this strange particle, calledZc (3900 ). Although the data is open to other interpretations, it’s clear that our understanding of quarks has a long way to go.
The evidence forZc (3900 ) comes from two independent groups: the BESIII Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider, China, and the Belle Collaboration at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan. It is the business of both labs to accelerate electrons and positrons to nearly the speed of light, smashing them into each other and carefully analyzing the resulting debris. Taken together, the two collaborations have uncovered466 events that appear to have aZc (3900 ) in their debris.
BTW, if you're paying attention, none of these facilities are in the US because ..... altogether now .... the US no longer has any electron-positron colliders or any high energy physics colliders! What we have left are nuclear physics facilities such as RHIC, which is scheduled to shut down due to budget cutbacks.
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Given what happened with the alleged pentaquark discovery, this will be interesting to watch.....
Douglas: we can learn a lot from the pentaquarks story, for sure. But it seems to me that the many new exotic hadrons discovered after the X(3872) really cannot be a fake. For instance, the existence of the X(3872) is confirmed by many experiments with great precision, and there are many more. What is very interesting is the theoretical interpretation of these resonances, which is not clear at all. (tetraquark? meson molecule? hybrid meson? etc. etc.)
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