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- noun physics The
hypothetical state of twoquarks grouped inside abaryon consisting of three.
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Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and his colleagues have calculated that as it ramps up, the LHC will generate enough collisions to produce clear signatures of a hypothetical "diquark" particle proposed by some forms of string theory.
Scientific American 2010
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b (10890), a tetraquark meson formed of an up flavour "diquark" (quark-antiquark pair) and a bottom flavour diquark, is very close in mass to Y (5S).
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"If we are right, it should actually be a combination of two barely distinguishable tetraquarks, the other formed of a down diquark and a bottom diquark, with an almost identical mass," he explained.
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