  The H dibaryon, a single, triply magic bag containing two up, two down and
two strange quarks, has long been sought after in a variety of experiments. Its
creation has been attempted in $K^-$, proton and most recently in relativistic
heavy ion induced reactions. We concentrate on the latter, but our conclusions
are more generally applicable. The two baryons coalescing to form the single
dibaryon, likely $\Lambda \Lambda$ in the case of heavy ions, must penetrate
the short range repulsive barrier which is expected to exist between them. We
find that this barrier can profoundly affect the probability of producing the H
state, should it actually exist.
