On the Quantum Mechanical State of the $\Delta^{++}$ baryon

TL;DR

This paper proposes a multiconfiguration approach to explain the quantum states of the $^{++}$ and $^-$ baryons, challenging the traditional need for color charge in Quantum Chromodynamics and addressing the proton spin crisis.

Contribution

It introduces a multiconfiguration structure of baryon states that accounts for experimental data without invoking color charge, offering a new perspective on strong interactions.

Findings

Multiconfiguration states explain baryon properties.

Strong spin-dependent interactions account for experimental results.

Challenges to the classical necessity of color in QCD.

Abstract

The $\Delta^{++}$ and the $\Omega^-$ baryons have been used as the original reason for the construction of the Quantum Chromodynamics theory of Strong Interactions. The present analysis relies on the multiconfiguration structure of states which are made of several Dirac particles. It is shown that this property, together with the very strong spin-dependent interactions of quarks provide an acceptable explanation for the states of these baryons and removes the classical reason for the invention of color within Quantum Chromodynamics. This explanation is supported by several examples that show a Quantum Chromodynamics' inconsistency with experimental results. The same arguments provide an explanation for the problem called the proton spin crisis.