Bound Photon Model:

Overview & Synopsis

Recent experimental evidence reveals the binding of photon pairs into quantized states of orbital angular momentum forming bosons and other experiments that form fermions as electron-positron pairs. This and other evidence suggests a bound photon model that postulates all massive elementary particles are composed of photon pairs with opposite momentum bound by an interaction that reflects the photons over a distance near their wavelength. Such a model provides a valuable opportunity to unify the known forces due to the simplicity of treating only one particle and its interactions. This report attempts to explore the extent to which this model agrees with the experimental data and how it compares with the Dirac theory and some of the other theories. The bound photon model is found to be in good agreement with the experimental evidence in classical relativistic mechanics, non-relativistic quantum mechanics and electricity and magnetism. With relativistic quantum mechanics the model's solutions from the wave equation are closely related to those of the Dirac and Klein Gordon equations, the difference being that the model's solutions have massless propagators. In the area of generating the masses of the leptons, mesons and baryons the bound photon model offers an approximate two parameter solution that is much simpler and in better agreement with the experimental mass data when compared with the results from lattice theory for QCD. The report contains the basic elements of what would be a bound photon theory but additional theoretical and experimental research is needed to resolve some of the options that the model presents and to include the weak theory as well as other areas not fully developed. The bound photon model makes testable predictions one of which may be observed by an electron diffraction experiment. 2