175: Tetraquark

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175: Tetraquark
Physicists at ATLAS, the general-purpose particle physics experiment at the LHC, have found evidence of a four-charm-quark (also called “di-charmonium”) excess. We have no idea what any of these things mean but it all sounds very impressive.

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