Nuclear Matter and Quark Chain in the Atomic Nucleus

We introduced, two years ago (Popescu, 2007), a new model of the atomic nucleus, the DNA nuclear-model, where the neutrons and the protons with their spin up and down seem to be the equivalents of the four bases of the DNA life molecule : Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Cytosine (C) and Guanine (G). The four elements : p↑, p↓, n↑, n↓ are bound in a chain, a close loop. With this model we succeeded to explain nuclear phenomena like : alpha radioactivity, fission or fusion.

Our present work goes further by considering the quark (anti quark) structure of the nucleons : protons, neutrons, or of the quanta (quark antiquark) of the nuclear field interaction : the pion. We suggest that the atomic nucleus is a loop chain of the quarks (real or virtual antiquark).