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Charmonium tetraquarks and pentaquarks or an additional quark?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-20 v8

Abstract

Most of the exotic hadrons discovered over the last 20 years fit into the quark model as normal mesons and baryons if the existence of a seventh flavor of quark is hypothesized. If the quark has a mass of \sim2.9 GeV, a charge of 13-\tfrac{1}{3}, and light-scalar-mediated decays to other quarks and ccˉc\bar{c}, then it is able to reproduce the mass, spin, parity, production and decay modes of most observed exotic hadrons. Predictions are made for additional hadrons as well as new production and decay modes for observed exotic hadrons.

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@article{arxiv.2204.00913,
  title  = {Charmonium tetraquarks and pentaquarks or an additional quark?},
  author = {Scott Chapman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00913},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages. Updated mappings and predictions