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Pentaquarks: Do they exist?

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Recently there has been great excitement about the possible existence of pentaquarks. In this article, we will discuss the quark model and multiquark structures as well as the recent experiments carried out to study the existence of pentaquarks.

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  1. Centre for High Energy Physics Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India

    B. Ananthanarayan

  2. Department of Physic, Indian Institute of Technology, 208 016, Kanpur, India

    Ekta Makhija

  3. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India

    K. Shivaraj

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Ananthanarayan, B., Makhija, E. & Shivaraj, K. Pentaquarks: Do they exist?. Reson 11, 21–31 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02835684

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