Y(4140)

The Y(4140) particle is an electrically neutral particle that is about 4.4 times heavier than the proton. It was observed at Fermilab and announced on 17 March 2009.[1] This particle is extremely rare and was detected in only 20 of billions of collisions.[2]

Since it decays into J/ψ and φ mesons, it has been suggested that this particle is composed of charm quarks and charm antiquarks, possibly even a four quark combination.[3] The existence of the particle has been confirmed by members of the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider on November 14, 2012[4][5] and by the DØ experiment at the Tevatron on September 25, 2013.[6][7] The Belle experiment[8] and LHCb[9][10] have searched for this particle but found no evidence for its existence.

The Particle Data Group has renamed Y(4140) to follow naming conventions to X(4140).

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  1. ↑ "Oddball Particle Surprises Physicists at Fermilab". redOrbit. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
  2. ↑ Handwerk, Brian (20 March 2009). "Strange Particle Created; May Rewrite How Matter's Made". National Geographic News. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
  3. ↑ Minard, Anne (18 March 2009). "New Particle Throws Monkeywrench in Particle Physics". Universe Today.
  4. ↑ Riesselmann, Kurt (December 4, 2012). "Experiment confirms existence of odd particle". Phys.Org.
  5. ↑ Hidalgo-Duquea, C., Nievesa, J., Pavón Valderrama, M. (November 29, 2012). "Heavy Quark Spin Symmetry and SU(3)-Flavour Partners of the X(3872)".
  6. ↑ Dorigo, Tommaso (September 26, 2013). "DZERO Confirms The Y(4140) And Its Excitation"
  7. ↑ D0 Collaboration (September 25, 2013). "Search for the X(4140) state in B+->J/psi phi K+ decays with the D0 detector"
  8. ↑ Shen, C. P.; et al. (2010). "Evidence for a New Resonance and Search for the Y(4140) in the γγ→ϕJ/ψ Process". Physical Review Letters 104: 112004. arXiv:0912.2383. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104k2004S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.112004.
  9. ↑ LHCb Collaboration (February 23, 2012). "Search for the X(4140) state in B+ to J/psi phi K+ decays"
  10. ↑ Dorigo, Tommaso (February 11, 2013). "The Mysterious Y(4140)"

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