A Bohr-type model of a composite particle using gravity as the attractive force

C.G. Vayenas, S. Souentie and A. Fokas

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 405, issue C, 360-379

Abstract: We formulate a Bohr-type rotating particle model for three light particles of rest mass mo each, forming a bound rotational state under the influence of their gravitational attraction, in the same way that electrostatic attraction leads to the formation of a bound proton–electron state in the classical Bohr model of the H atom. By using special relativity, the equivalence principle and the de Broglie wavelength equation, we find that when each of the three rotating particles has the same rest mass as the rest mass of a neutrino or an antineutrino (∼0.05 eV/c2) then surprisingly the composite rotating state has the rest mass of the stable baryons, i.e. of the proton and the neutron (∼1 GeV/c2). This rest mass is due almost exclusively to the kinetic energy of the rotating particles. The results are found to be consistent with the theory of general relativity. The model contains no unknown parameters, describes both asymptotic freedom and confinement and also provides good agreement with QCD regarding the QCD condensation temperature. Predictions for the thermodynamic and other physical properties of these bound rotational states are compared with experimental values.

Keywords: Special relativity; Schwarzschild geodesics; Neutrinos; Baryons; Binding energy; QCD condensation temperature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.045

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