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Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark

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Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a quark-antiquark pair, respectively(1,2). Here, we report the observation of a hadronic state containing four quarks in the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment. This so-called tetraquark contains two charm quarks, a (u) over bar and a (d) over tilde quark. This exotic state has a mass of approximately 3,875 MeV and manifests as a narrow peak in the mass spectrum of (DD0)-D-0 pi(+) mesons just below the D*D-+(0) mass threshold. The near-threshold mass together with the narrow width reveals the resonance nature of the state
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10.1038/s41567-022-01614-y
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Nature Research
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Volume:
18
Issue:
7
Pages:
751-754
Publication date:
2022-06-16
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1745-2481
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1745-2473


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1266946
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pubs:1266946
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W4282958578
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2026-04-27
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