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arXiv · 2401.07239

Quantum Chromodynamics of the Nucleon in the Framework of Complex Probabilistic Processes

Abstract

Soon after the postulation of quarks by Gell-Mann, Zweig and Fritzsch the experimental confirmation of these sub-nucleon formations, Feynman, Ravndal and Kislinger proposed a relativistic three-quark model of the nucleon to study its internal structure and state. Despite the obvious progress in describing the internal motion of a system with confinement of quarks in a nucleon, it should be stated that the model is not realistic enough. The fact is that the model ignores the processes of gluon exchange between quarks, as well as the influence of continuously formed pairs of quarks and antiquarks (quark sea) on valence quarks. To overcome this difficulty, the problem of self-organization of a three-quark dynamical system immersed in a colored quark-antiquark sea is considered within the framework of the representation of complex probabilistic processes satisfying the stochastic differential equation of Langevin-Kline-Gordon-Fock type. Taking into account the hidden symmetry of the internal motion of a dynamical system, a mathematically closed non-perturbative approach has been developed, which makes it possible to construct the mathematical expectation of the wave function and other parameters of the nucleon in the form of multiple integral representations. The developed approach can be especially useful for studying the state of nucleons in critical states, which occurs, for example, in massive and dense stellar formations such as neutron stars, etc.

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A. S. Gevorkyan, A. V. Bogdanov. 2024-01-14. Quantum Chromodynamics of the Nucleon in the Framework of Complex Probabilistic Processes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07239

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