Hydrodynamic model of neutral pion

摘要

In a groundbreaking article in Physical Review in 1961 it was suggested by Sternglassthat the neutral pion consisted of an electron and a positron in a mutual orbit about the center ofmass with velocity of magnitude near the speed of light so that the mass is increased by a Lorentzfactor of about 274. The present author has developed a hydrodynamic theory of particles and fields,which removes the obvious problem with the Sternglass model that real orbital motion of chargesshould result in radiation of energy. The hydrodynamic theory explains the stability of the stationarystates of atoms without the presence of real orbital motion. The author has calculated the mass ofthe neutral pion to be 264.07 times the rest mass of the electron in very close agreement with theexperimental value 264.14m0. While the experimental data appear to support the standard model ofparticles based on quarks and gluons, the same data also can be interpreted to support a model basedon the assumption that the only fundamental elementary particles with mass are the electron and thepositron. The asymptotic freedom of the partons in deep electron inelastic scattering from nucleonscan be accounted for without assuming the existence of quarks and gluons with color charges.Similarly, the strong force is not necessarily due to the interaction of color charges on quarks andgluons, but may be better explained as the relativistic enhancement of the electrostatic attractiveforce between suitably oriented electrons and positrons in adjacent pions separated by shortdistances as originally suggested in 1965 by Sternglass. Heavy mesons are not necessarily formedfrom strange and charmed quarks and their antiparticles, but can be accounted for by themultiple-pion theory of hadrons proposed by Sternglass. A hydrodynamic model of the neutroninvolving six bound neutral pions and a positive muon and a negative muon (as partons) ispresented.