Quarks in Hadrons and Nuclei Part 1: Quark Structure of Nucleon

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Strongly Correlated Quark Model (SCQM), a semi-empirical framework combining features of non-relativistic and relativistic quark models, grounded in QCD principles, to describe nucleon structure.

Contribution

It proposes a novel quark model that incorporates key QCD features and explains nuclear symmetry emergence from quark correlations.

Findings

SCQM captures essential QCD features like gauge invariance and asymptotic freedom.

The model predicts face-centered cubic symmetry in nuclear structure.

Quark-quark correlations lead to nucleon-nucleon correlations and nuclear organization.

Abstract

We propose a semi-empirical quark model of nucleon structure, so-called, Strongly Correlated Quark Model, SCQM, which possess the features of both non-relativistic and relativistic quark models. Based on SU(3) color symmetry it includes the main features of QCD: local gauge invariance, asymptotic freedom, and chiral symmetry breaking. This First Part of the paper is devoted to description of the model, SCQM, and in the forthcoming Second Part we will apply the model to built the nuclear structure. Applied to nuclei, it reveals emergence of the face-centered cubic (FCC) symmetry of the nuclear structure.This symmetry arise from quark-quark correlations leading, in turn, to nucleon-nucleon correlations.