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Colour Confinement and Deformed Baryons in Quantum Chromodynamics
The confinement of coloured entities in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is
traced to colour singletness of the observed entities. This is believed to
arise from colour singlet state of quark-antiquark for mesons and a fully
colour antisymmetric state for baryons. This demands a spherically symmetric
baryon in the ground state. However it is pointed out that a deformed baryon in
the ground state has been found to be extremely successful phenomenology. There
are convincing experimental supports for a deformed nucleon as well. This means
that something has been missed in the fundamental theory. In this paper this
problem is traced to a new colour singlet state for baryons which has been
missed hitherto and incorporation of which provides a consistent justification
of a deformed baryon in the ground state. Interestingly this new colour singlet
state is global in nature.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur