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Beyond sexaquarks?

There are some candidates for tetraquarks, pentaquarks or even now sexaquarks/hexaquarks. But, I wonder, what are the highest molecular quark states taking into account QCD? Are there heptaquarks, ...
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Isospin multiplet for a given pentaquark

Considering the pentaquark $P = (uudt\bar{c})$, with orbital angular momentum $L = 0$, and assuming a space-spin wavefunction that corresponds to the maximum-J state, I want to know the isospin ...
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Could a $uuuu\bar{u}$ pentaquark exist?

Could a $uuuu\bar{u}$ pentaquark exist or is it forbidden due to Pauli exclusion principle?
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Q\Quark Formation of the Latest Tetraquark

I was recently reading an article about a tetraquark combo TCC+ that was found and measured. The pic in the article looks wrong to me. It shows C antiU on top and a C antiD on the bottom. I know it ...
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Pentaquark color structure [closed]

I just heard about pentaquarks. How do you assign color charge to a pentaquark like duuc anti c
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Can a baryon consist of two quarks and an antiquark? Or a pentaquark be made of three quarks and two antiquarks? [duplicate]

I suspect these particles exist, but are extremely short-lived, even compared to other unstable, exotic particles...
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How and why is the pentaquark stable if it consists of 4 quarks and an antiquark?

If matter and antimatter annihilate each other, why is the pentaquark stable since quarks are matter and the antiquark is antimatter?
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How many antiquarks can be squeezed inside a nucleon without upsetting exclusion principle?

I read about a nucleon with 3 Strange quarks which clearly violates PEP, however this was soon resolved by introducing colour charges. Then I read about colour confinement where surplus energy can be ...
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Pentaquark found in LHC

Good Afternoon, So one of the 2 pentaquarks possibly found in the LHC was U,U,D,C,-C My question is that wouldn't the C/-C annihilate each other almost immediately, leaving the U,U,D? How long ...
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Protons and Neutrons inside the Nucleus

I know that the strong nuclear force holds quarks together to form protons and neutrons, as long as their color charges add up to white, so then how does the strong force simultaneously hold the ...
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What's the difference between a pentaquark and a proton?

The proton isn't just 3 quarks bound by gluons: From here, a proton also has an uncountable lot of sea quarks, antiquarks and gluons and that The standard shorthand, “the proton is made from two up ...
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"Unaccounted for" vertices in certain Feynman diagrams?

I'm looking to understand where certain "unexplained" vertices in some Feynman diagrams come from, in a physical sense. For example, in the top figure (Aaij et al. 2015), in diagram (b), there is an "...
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What does the discovery of a pentaquark signify?

at a particle collider a pentaquark was discovered. My question in short is what does the discovery of a pentaquark signify? Is there a theory that it supports or something like that?
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Quark model in particle physics; is it possible for a particle to exist with five or seven quarks?

As we all know that baryons are made up of three quarks while mesons are made up of a quark and an anti-quark. Is it possible for a particle to exist with five or seven quarks? Can a particle exist ...
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The Makeup of the Pentaquark

Why is it that when they have the artist's rendition of the Pentaquark it shows two downs, two ups, and one anti-strange quark? Is this or is this just for show? Follow up to this question: if this ...
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