The color wave functions of the quark model for colorless multiquark configurations (color singlets) are constructed by an elementary method without an explicit use of group theory. It is shown that no normalizable color singlet wave functions exists for free quarks, free diquarks and free diquark-antiquarks. The color wave functions of the mesons and the baryons are derived. (C) 1996 American Association of Physics Teachers. [References: 6]
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