Fitting the exotic hadron spectrum with an additional quark
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2026-03-31 v15
Abstract
Most of the exotic hidden-charm hadrons discovered over the last 20 years fit neatly into the quark model as normal mesons and baryons if the existence of a seventh flavor of quark is hypothesized. For the quark to reproduce the spectrum (mass, spin, parity) of exotic hadrons, it would have to have a mass of 2.9 GeV and a charge of . The observed production and decay modes of these hadrons can be reproduced by a model that also includes light scalar bosons.
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@article{arxiv.2203.03007,
title = {Fitting the exotic hadron spectrum with an additional quark},
author = {Scott Chapman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03007},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7 pages. Updated hadron mappings as well as production and decay processes