Supercomputer study shows Lambda baryon a type of quark molecule

Monday, April 6, 2015 - 07:30 in Physics & Chemistry

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University has found that the excited state of the Lambda baryon, Λ(1405), is actually a type of quark molecule. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the researchers describe how they ran simulations on a computer that confirmed the properties of the unique particles.

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