High Energy Particle Physics

The Pionic Deuterium and the Pion Tetrahedron Vacuum Polarization

Authors: Rami Rom
Comments: 18 Pages.

A double-well potential model is proposed for the pionic deuterium that enables calculating the energy split, the potential barrier and the pion tetrahedron edge length. We propose that pion tetrahedrons mediate the strong force by enabling quark exchange reactions between protons and neutrons. A vacuum polarization Feynman diagram is proposed for the pion tetrahedrons having two chains of gluons and fermion loops for the two valence quarks and anti-quarks. With a higher order vacuum polarization diagram, the two fermion loops are connected and flipped by additional gluons and the pion tetrahedron chiral symmetry is broken by the non-empty vacuum as expected by the QCD chiral perturbation theory.
Category: High Energy Particle Physics