Volume 5: Pages 44-46, 1992

Use of Hadronic Mechanics for a Characterization of the Shape of the Proton

Michio Nishioka ¹, Ruggero Maria Santilli ²

¹Department of Physics, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753 Japan

²The Institute for Basic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 U.S.A.

The lack of a perfectly spherical character of the charge distribution of the proton is inferred from the anomalous magnetic moment of the particle. As a schematic representation of the shape of the proton, a spheroidal ellipsoid can be assumed from classical considerations. Use of the hadronic generalization of quantum mechanics then permits the quantitative estimate for the ellipsoid of the oblate spheroidal type with metric g = diag [1; 1; 0.60].

Keywords: extended and deformable character of hadrons (or the like)

Received: May 22, 1990; Published Online: December 15, 2008