"mercury" wrote in message
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> I tought is there any explicit mechanism realizing the mass defect.
> Something in terms of gravitons or virtual photon. Maybe it looks
> silly but I wonder why there is not a defect of the charge as well
> as a defect if mass.
*** Jay Writes ***
Hi Mercury:
I am going to refer you to my paper below, which was just published on
April 30, because it is exactly on point to your question:
J. Yablon, "Predicting the Binding Energies of the 1s Nuclides with High
Precision, Based on Baryons which Are Yang-Mills Magnetic Monopoles,"
Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 4 No. 4A, 2013, pp. 70-93. doi:
10.4236/jmp.2013.44A010. Link:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=30817
This paper is all about nuclear mass defect / binding energy,
specifically for 2^H, 3^H, 3^He and ^4He. Section 8 of this paper
"retrodicts" (Phil, I like that word!) the mass defect for each of these
nuclides to within about parts per million.
You will see that *sole* the driving factors in these binding energies
are the up and down current quark masses. Very interestingly, whatever
electrostatic repulsion there is between pairs of protons (in He) or
whatever electrostatic repulsion is absent because there is only one
proton (in H), is fully accounted for. This tells us that the fact that
the down quark (circa 4.9 MeV) is more massive than the up quark (circa
2.2 MeV) *already incorporates* the electrostatic repulsion that we
observe in nuclear binding (therefor subsuming any discussion that one
might wish to have about electrostatic charge). In other words, the 4.9
MeV - 2.2 MeV = 2.7 MeV difference between the up and down masses is
*already inherently reflective* of the fact that a larger electrostatic
repulsion (which reduces the energy, compare the ^3H to ^3He isobars,
also compare the free proton and neutron masses) exists within a proton
(with two +2/3 and one -1/3 charges) versus within a neutron (with two
-1/3 charges and one +2/3 charge), together with the fact that that a
neutron gives off an electron (and an antineutrino ~ 0 mass) to turn
into a proton.
Jay