Baryon String-Junction Torus: an Appearance in High Energy Proton Collisions

TL;DR

This paper proposes a topological model of pomeron exchange in high-energy proton collisions using a torus structure with hexagonal segments, suggesting implications for rapidity gap distributions and potential dark matter candidates.

Contribution

It introduces a novel topological representation of pomeron exchange as a baryon junction torus with hexagonal segments, linking it to rapidity gaps and dark matter.

Findings

Discrete gap distribution in double diffraction dissociation events.

Pomeron torus can be a metastable particle, possibly related to dark matter.

Production of multi-quark states with string junctions discussed.

Abstract

The topological presentation of pomeron exchange at the proton-proton collision of high energy is cylinder that is covered with the net of quark-gluon exchanges. I suggest that the process of double diffraction dissociation (DD) can be presented as one pomeron exchange with the central loop of two uncut pomeron cylinders. Taking into account that the junction of three gluon strings (SJ) has the positive baryon number, as well as the antijunction is of negative baryon charge, our neutral pomeron torus can be covered with only a certain number of hexagons that are built of 3 junction and 3 antijunction each. This image is similar somehow to graphene tube. It is reasonable to expect that the dynamics of rapidity gaps in DD should be determined by the number of hexagons on the surface of pomeron torus. Therefore, the gap distribution in DD events has the discrete structure in the region of large gaps. Moreover, the SJ torus can be released in pp interactions as metastable particle and is getting suspected as Dark Matter candidate. The possibility of production of multi-quark states with few string junctions has been discussed recently by G.C. Rossi and G. Veneziano.