A Model of Mesons (Revised)

Overview & Synopsis

Abstract: Detailed models of mesons have been derived in terms of structured particles which can replace the basic quark/anti-quark singularities of standard QCD theory. Pion design is related to the muonic mass, with a Yukawa-type potential for the hadronic field. A charged pion is produced by adding a heavy-electron or positron in a tight orbit around the neutral core. Other mesons are found to be ordered assemblies of pion-size masses, travelling in bound epicyclical orbits, with real intrinsic spin and angular momentum. These orbit dimensions are related to the mean lifetimes of the mesons through action integrals. Decay products resemble components of their parent mesons as expected for a relaxation process with particle traceability.