diquark

British  

/ ˈdaɪkwɑːk /

noun

1. a low-energy configuration of two quarks attracted to one another by virtue of having antisymmetric colours and spins

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Example Sentences

Instead of a virtual photon hitting one quark and freeing it to go find two new quarks to bond with, as theorists have long assumed, the virtual photon sometimes seemed to interact with a quark pair, known as a diquark.

From Scientific American

Likely composed of the mundane up and down quarks that are so plentiful in the nucleus, this diquark would then go in search of a third quark, ultimately bonding with a strange quark.

From Scientific American

Not all physicists are convinced that this diquark hypothesis reflects how lambdas really form, however.

From Scientific American

For example, he says, patterns of momentum transfer between particles that the researchers attribute to the diquark’s dynamics could instead be the result of a single quark picking up two quarks separately.

From Scientific American