Colour Confinement and Deformed Baryons in Quantum Chromodynamics

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new global colour singlet state in QCD that explains the observed deformation of baryons and nucleons, challenging the traditional spherically symmetric assumption and providing a more consistent theoretical framework.

Contribution

It introduces a novel global colour singlet state for baryons, explaining baryon deformation and addressing gaps in the fundamental theory of confinement.

Findings

Deformed baryons are phenomenologically successful.

Experimental support for deformed nucleons exists.

A new global colour singlet state explains baryon deformation.

Abstract

The confinement of coloured entities in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is traced to colour singletness of the observed entities. This is believed to arise from colour singlet state of quark-antiquark for mesons and a fully colour antisymmetric state for baryons. This demands a spherically symmetric baryon in the ground state. However it is pointed out that a deformed baryon in the ground state has been found to be extremely successful phenomenology. There are convincing experimental supports for a deformed nucleon as well. This means that something has been missed in the fundamental theory. In this paper this problem is traced to a new colour singlet state for baryons which has been missed hitherto and incorporation of which provides a consistent justification of a deformed baryon in the ground state. Interestingly this new colour singlet state is global in nature.