On tachyons and hadrons
E.L. Wall · Hadronic J.; (United States) · 1986
The tachyonic approach to modeling fundamental particles is applied to several members of the hadron family. The proton consist of a ..sigma.. hyperon driven in its orbit by a tachyon that is unable to slow down below the speed of light, thus forming the proton's magnetic moment. The radius of the tachyon's orbit, (the proton's outermost particle) is 2.78 fm, which compares quite well with Bethes effective radius of 2.71 fm. The radius of its ..sigma.. hyperon's orbit is 0.587 fm, which compares quite well with a charge-distribution radius of 0.6 fm from high-energy electron scattering data. The sum of the neutral pion and the ..sigma.. hyperon's conversion Q is found to be numerically equal to the mass of the tachyon. Bombarding the proton with energy enough to increase its total system energy by the mass of the tachyon plus the ..sigma.. hyperon's ground-state energy produces a total system energy value of 1236.82 MeV, corresponding to the ..delta.. 1236 resonance. It is convenient to represent the ratio of the magnetic moment of the proton to the nuclear magneton as (..mu../sub p/)/(..mu../sub N/) = ..sqrt..(M/sub T//sub p/ /sup c//sup =/)/(2 E/sub T//sub p/) = 2.7927501, where M/sub T//sub p/ is themore » mass of the tachyon and E/sub T//sub p/ is its energy. Adding a similarly orbiting pion to the center of proton model so that it revolves in the same direction as the ..sigma.. hyperon causes a neutron to be formed with an electrostatic binding energy of 2.550 MeV, very near the energy of the ..gamma.. ray that is ejected during the formation of a deuteron. The energy of excitation of the pion is 3.056 GeV, very near the 3-GeV peaks of the pion-deuteron and kaon-deuteron scattering curves.« less