Do hexaquarks exist?
At the moment, hexaquarks are only hypothetical particles.
A hexaquark was possibly observed at the Jülich Research Center in 2014[1], but it was not confirmed.
It is thought that if hexaquarks do exist, they would be quite stable[2][3], and might possibly account for much of the dark matter in the universe[3].
References
- ^ , Evidence for a New Resonance from Polarized Neutron-Proton Scattering, Physical Review Letters 112 (20). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.202301
- ^ , Stability of hexaquarks in the string limit of confinement, Physical Review D 85 (1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.014019
- ^ , Stable Sexaquark. https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08951