Reasons for nuclear forces in light of the constitution of the real space

Abstract

The concept of microstructure of the real space, considered as a mathematical lattice of cells (the tessel-lattice), and notions of canonical particles and fields, which are generated by the space, are analyzed. Submicroscopic mechanics based on this concept is discussed and employed for in-depth study of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. It is argued that a deformation coat is developed in the real space around the nucleon (as is the case with any other canonical particle such as electron, muon, etc.) and that they are the deformation coats that are responsible for the appearance of nuclear forces. One more source of nuclear forces is associated with inerton clouds, excitations of the space tessel-lattice (the excitations are a substructure of nucleons' matter waves), which accompany moving nucleons as in the case of any other canonical particles. Two nuclear systems are under consideration: the deuteron and a weight nucleus. It is shown that a weight nucleus is a cluster of interacting protons and neutrons. The condition of the cluster stability is obtained in the framework of the statistical mechanical approach. On the whole, the paper proposes a radically new approach to a very old unsolved problem, the origin of the nuclear forces, allowing the understanding mechanism(s) occurring at low energy nuclear transmutations.