On the possibility of revealing the transition of a baryon pair state to a six-quark confinement state

Abstract

Proton-proton collisions are considered to find favourable conditions for searching for the transition of a baryon pair state to a hexa-quark confinement state $(3q)+(3q)\rightarrow(6q)_\mathrm{cnf}$. It is admitted that central $pp$ collisions in a definite range of the initial energy can lead to creation of an intermediate compound system where the hexa-quark dibaryon can be formed. Criteria for selection of central collision events and for manifestation of the quark-structure dibaryon production are proposed.