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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 259, 2022
The 19th International Conference of Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2021)
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| Article Number | 13016 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Open and New (Parallel) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225913016 | |
| Published online | 01 February 2022 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225913016
QED Mesons, the QED Neutron, and the Dark Matter
Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
* Email: wongc@ornl.gov
Published online: 1 February 2022
Schwinger’s boson solution for massless fermions in QED in 1+1D has been applied and generalized to quarks interacting in QED and QCD interactions, leading to stable and confined open-string QED and QCD boson excitations of the quark-QCD-QED system in 1+1D. Just as the open-string QCD excitations in 1+1D can be the idealization of QCD mesons with a flux tube in 3+1D, so the open-string QED excitations in 1+1D may likewise be the idealization of QED mesons with masses in the tens of MeV region, corresponding possibly to the anomalous X17 and E38 particles observed recently. A further search for bound states of quarks interacting in the QED interaction alone leads to the examination on the stability of the QED neutron, consisting of two d quarks and one u quark. Theoretically, the QED neutron has been found to be stable and estimated to have a mass of 44.5 MeV, whereas the analogous QED proton is unstable, leading to a long-lived QED neutron that may be a good candidate for the dark matter.
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