Abstract
A classification of the new particles is proposed. Hadrons are constructed from quarks corresponding to several different representations of an SU3 color group, with confined color. The new family of resonances, related to ψJ, is assigned to color-antisextet quarks Q. These new quarks Q do not form mixed mesons q¯Q with old antiquarks but can form mixed baryons Qqq. We speculate on the relation between color and mass. High-mass recurrences of the ψJ family are expected to have associated large changes in the cross section for electron-positron annihilation (ΔR>4). A conjectured mass formula, which relates the masses of ψJ and ω, predicts the masses of possible recurrences of the ψJ particle. Other experimental implications at presently available energies are discussed, especially the necessity for an isovector partner for ψJ, and for pseudoscalar mesons at 1.8-2.2 GeV, some of which can decay into two photons.

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