There Are Only Two Quarks and Stretchy Tubes

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: James Carl Ayoub
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19035830
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Abstract

The truth and the beauty of this is quite charmingly strange. There are only two quarks: the up and the down. The heavy baryons are nothing more than gluonic flux tube energy variations due to stretching and various combinations thereof. And "Who ordered that?" Geometry did.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

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Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
15 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint