The Search for QCD Exotics

The Search for QCD Exotics

Particles predicted by the theory of quantum chromodynamics help explain why the fundamental building blocks of matter are impossible to isolate. For the past 25 years, physicists have suspected that a subatomic particle unlike any other must exist.

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Published in:American scientist Vol. 88; no. 5; p. 406
Main Authors: Dzierba, Alex R, Meyer, Curtis A, Swanson, Eric S
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Research Triangle Park Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society 01-09-2000
Sigma XI-The Scientific Research Society
Subjects:
Atoms & subatomic particles
Dynamics of a particle
Matter & antimatter
Particle dynamics
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Physics
Quantum chromodynamics
Quantum theory
Subatomic particles
United States
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Summary:Particles predicted by the theory of quantum chromodynamics help explain why the fundamental building blocks of matter are impossible to isolate. For the past 25 years, physicists have suspected that a subatomic particle unlike any other must exist.
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ISSN:0003-0996
1545-2786
DOI:10.1511/2000.35.406