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Glueball
A glueball, also called gluonium, is a hypothetical particle made entirely of gluons, which carry color charge and can bind to each other; candidates include f0(1710) and X(2370).
H-dibaryon
The H-dibaryon is a hypothetical six-quark particle, a bound state of two Λ hyperons predicted by Robert Jaffe in 1977, never observed despite decades of searches and lattice QCD studies suggesting it is unbound.
Pentaquark
A pentaquark is an exotic hadron made of four quarks and one antiquark, first confirmed by CERN's LHCb experiment in 2015 and long predicted by the quark model.
Strangelet
A strangelet, also known as a quark nugget, is a hypothetical lump of strange quark matter made of up, down, and strange quarks, with none confirmed experimentally.
Tetraquark
A tetraquark is a hadron made of two quarks and two antiquarks, an exotic state beyond ordinary mesons and baryons, first seen as a clear candidate in 2003.
Zb(10610) and Zb(10650)
Zb(10610) and Zb(10650), often abbreviated Zb and Zb′, are charged, bottomonium-like exotic hadrons discovered by the Belle Collaboration in 2011 that require four quarks.
Zc(3900)
Zc(3900) is a charged, charmonium-like particle discovered in 2013 by the BESIII and Belle collaborations with a mass of about 3.9 GeV, making it a leading tetraquark candidate.