Baryon Junction Detected at RHIC/STAR 2026: Direct Confirmation of the Connection Ontology of the Unified Wave Cosmological Model.
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: In August 2026, the STAR Collaboration at RHIC published results (in press, Science) showing that baryon number in protons is carried not by quarks, but by a gluonic Y-shaped junction — a baryon junction [8]. This contradicts the standard quark-parton model, in which baryon number is distributed among three valence quarks. The Unified Wave Cosmological Model (UWCM) [1–4, 9] postulates that the fundamental properties of particles are encoded in the configuration of connections, not in individual nodes. In UWCM, baryon number is a property of the connectivity topology of the Plast network. The discovered Y-shaped structure is exactly the topological invariant predicted by UWCM for stable configurations. This work demonstrates that the RHIC/STAR 2026 result provides direct empirical confirmation of the connection ontology of UWCM, independently confirming its key principles: the primacy of connections over nodes, the localization of information in connectivity, and the birth of matter from the energy of connections.
Author: Slavutskiy, Gleb
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204483617
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