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- noun Plural form of
tetraquark .
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Examples
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If tetraquarks exist, there's a good chance that they will be seen by physicists working on electron-positron colliders at KEK in Japan and SLAC in California.
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"If we are right, it should actually be a combination of two barely distinguishable tetraquarks, the other formed of a down diquark and a bottom diquark, with an almost identical mass," he explained.
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Though not conclusive, this evidence further supports the possibility that tetraquarks exist.
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For decades, particle physicists have been curious about the existence of tetraquarks, and in recent years experiments are becoming sensitive enough to see hints of them.
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If such tetraquarks do exist, it would lead to an extended quark model of exotic particles.
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Ali explains why it makes sense: "If we assume that tetraquarks exist, we can consider what masses are possible, and how they will decay.
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