Multi-Quark Energies in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory

Energies of four-quark systems have been extracted in a quenched SU(2) lattice Monte Carlo calculation for two different geometries, rectangular and colinear, with $\beta =2.4$ and lattice size ${16}^3\times 32$. Also, by going to a lattice ${24}^3\times 32$ and to $\beta =2.5$, the effect of the finite lattice size and scaling are checked. An attempt is made to understand these results in terms of a model based on interquark two-body potentials but modified very significantly by a phenomenological gluon-field overlap factor.