Editors: | Vayenas Intl. Symp. / Physical Chemistry and its applications for sustainable development Edited by: F. Kongoli, E. Aifantis, C. Cavalca, A. de Lucas Consuegra, A. Efstathiou, M. Fardis, D. Grigoriou, A. Lemonidou, S.G. Neophytides, Y. Roman, M. Stoukides, M. Sullivan, P. Vernoux, X. Verykios, I. Yentekakis |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2019 |
Pages: | 249 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-989820-09-4 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
Understanding the origin of quark confinement in hadrons remains one of the most challenging problems in modern physics. Recently, the pressure distribution inside the proton was measured via deeply virtual Compton scattering. Surprisingly, strong repulsive pressure up to 1035 pascals, the highest so far measured in our universe, was obtained near the center of the proton up to 0.6 fm, combined with strong binding energy at larger distances. We show here that this profile can be derived semi-quantitatively without any adjustable parameters using the rotating lepton model of composite particles (RLM), i.e. a proton structure comprising a ring of three gravitationally attracting rotating ultrarelativistic quarks. The RLM synthesizes Newton's gravitational law, Einstein's special relativity, and de Broglie's wavelength expression, thereby conforming to quantum mechanics. This also yields a simple analytical formula for the proton radius and for the maximum measured pressure which are in excellent agreement with the experimental values.