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C Alexandrou1, Ph de Forcrand, B Lucini
1Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Abstract:
Diquarks may play an important role in hadron spectroscopy, baryon decays, and color superconductivity. We investigate the existence of diquark correlations in lattice QCD by considering systematically all the lowest energy diquark channels in a color gauge-invariant setup. We measure mass differences between the various channels and show that the positive parity scalar diquark is the lightest. Quark-quark correlations inside the diquark are clearly seen in this channel, and yield a diquark size of O(1) fm.
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