Discovery of Dibaryons Confirms Existence of Diquarks in Baryons

Researchers have discovered that strange matter can be formed when a single photon is absorbed simultaneously by two quarks, leading to the formation of lambda baryons. The discovery poses fundamental questions about the nature of the strong nuclear force and suggests a different mechanism of production and interaction than the case of the single quark interaction. The implications of this discovery could be particularly striking for quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which is the theoretical framework describing the strong nuclear force.