Color Confinement -The Unresolved Structural Anomaly of QCD proposes a new explanation for color confinement based on the mechanical stability of the etheric pressure field described in Quarkbase Cosmology. Instead of relying on numerical results from quantum chromodynamics, the analysis examines how multi-quark configurations load and deform the underlying vacuum medium. The key result is that only two-quark and three-quark systems remain mechanically stable, while any larger color configuration generates internal modes that destabilize the structure, preventing the formation of bound states. This provides a simple physical reason for the existence of mesons and baryons, and explains why no four-quark or higher-order pure-color states are observed in nature. The mechanism offers an analytic, medium-based perspective on confinement, complementing and extending standard QCD interpretations.
Date: Nov 26, 2025
Author: Carlos Omeñaca Prado
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9750-5827
Resource type: Preprint
Publisher: Zenodo
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
Related links:
- https://zenodo.org/records/17717961
- https://archive.org/details/color-confinement-the-unresolved-structural-anomaly-of-qcd
- https://www.academia.edu/145246467/Color_Confinement_The_Unresolved_Structural_Anomaly_of_QCD