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Hi all.
Seems that the Standard Model might need revising.
This could also have implications for superheavy element research, if a small number of the fermions in the nucleus were tetraquarks then complementary resonances may occur and cancel out which would leading to metastability despite Z being very large.
One intriguing possibility raised is that fractional atomic numbers could be stable, with conventional atoms made of protons and neutrons ie UUD and UDD the atomic number increases by 1. With tetraquarks the atomic number for superheavy elements such as Z=122 would become 122.25 or 122.75 so novel chemistry becomes possible.
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Not sure. At the moment this is just a hypothesis but as we haven't seen any elements with Z > 96 in nature its likely that either they are so heavy that they are deep down in the Earth's mantle or too unstable to last 4.8BY
I did wonder if the sadly deceased Dr. Amnon Marinov's "discovery" was genuine, roentgenium being found in gold is plausible albeit in barely measurable quantities. Perhaps all the gold is shielding the natural radioactivity, or something else is extending the decay time other than the doubly magic number effect?
One hypothesis to be considered is that once produced ie by neutron star collisions if the element was a natural high temperature superconductor then it could (maybe) be stable by radiating its decay energy as magnetic fluctuations or other EM waves. If so then small quantities of roentgenium could be detected by looking at the spectra from neutron stars, also heating up a thin sample of meteoric gold to above the critical temperature in an alpha detector would result in the roentgenium rapidly decaying and a clear radioactive signature being detected.
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New tetraquark particle seen at CERN
