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Pentaquark states with hidden charm

Nuclear Theory 2017-11-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

I develop an extension of the usual three-flavor quark model to four flavors (u, d, s and c), and discuss the classification of pentaquark states with hidden charm. This work is motivated by the recent observation of such states by the LHCb Collatoration at CERN.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10252,
  title  = {Pentaquark states with hidden charm},
  author = {Roelof Bijker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10252},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, 3 table, plenary talk at XL Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Cocoyoc, Mexico, January 5-8, 2017. To be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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