Consilience Note: Regge Trajectories as Harmonic Excitation Ladders in Confinement Systems

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contents <p>Hadron spectroscopy reveals that many mesons and baryons align along approximately linear relations between particle spin and squared mass, known as Regge trajectories. When spin is plotted against mass squared in Chew–Frautschi diagrams, hadrons appear in ordered sequences forming nearly straight lines. These relations were discovered prior to the development of quantum chromodynamics and remain a central empirical feature of strong-interaction physics. Conventional interpretations explain Regge trajectories using effective string models of quark confinement in which rotating gluonic flux tubes generate increasing angular momentum with mass. Independent of the specific modeling framework, however, the observations demonstrate the existence of structured excitation sequences within confinement systems. This note highlights the compatibility of Regge trajectories with harmonic structural interpretations in which hadronic states correspond to admissible excitation modes of a constrained confinement geometry.</p>
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spellingShingle Consilience Note: Regge Trajectories as Harmonic Excitation Ladders in Confinement Systems
Doumbouya, Lisa Michelle
regge trajectories
hadron spectroscopy
chew-frautschi plot
quantum cromodynamics
quark confinement
flux tube models
lattice QCD
harmonic modes
particle excitation
spectra
structural physics
harmonic physics
strong interaction
<p>Hadron spectroscopy reveals that many mesons and baryons align along approximately linear relations between particle spin and squared mass, known as Regge trajectories. When spin is plotted against mass squared in Chew–Frautschi diagrams, hadrons appear in ordered sequences forming nearly straight lines. These relations were discovered prior to the development of quantum chromodynamics and remain a central empirical feature of strong-interaction physics. Conventional interpretations explain Regge trajectories using effective string models of quark confinement in which rotating gluonic flux tubes generate increasing angular momentum with mass. Independent of the specific modeling framework, however, the observations demonstrate the existence of structured excitation sequences within confinement systems. This note highlights the compatibility of Regge trajectories with harmonic structural interpretations in which hadronic states correspond to admissible excitation modes of a constrained confinement geometry.</p>
title Consilience Note: Regge Trajectories as Harmonic Excitation Ladders in Confinement Systems
topic regge trajectories
hadron spectroscopy
chew-frautschi plot
quantum cromodynamics
quark confinement
flux tube models
lattice QCD
harmonic modes
particle excitation
spectra
structural physics
harmonic physics
strong interaction
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18884265