Electromagnetic Schrödinger Equation of the Deuteron ²H (Heavy Hydrogen)

Bernard Schaeffer

7 Rue de l’Ambroisie, Paris, France.

DOI: 10.4236/wjnst.2014.44029                

Abstract

The binding energy of the deuteron is calculated electromagnetically with the Schrödinger equation. In mainstream nuclear physics, the only known Coulomb force is the repulsion between protons, inexistent in the deuteron. It is ignored that a proton attracts a neutron containing electric charges with no net charge and that the magnetic moments of the nucleons interact together significantly. A static equilibrium exists in the deuteron between the electrostatic attraction and the magnetic repulsion. The Heitler equation of the hydrogen atom has been adapted to its nucleus where the centrifugal force is replaced by the magnetic repulsive force, solved graphically, by trial and error, without fit to experiment. As by chance, one obtains, at the lowest horizontal inflection point, with a few percent precision, the experimental value of the deuteron binding energy. This success, never obtained elsewhere, proves the purely static and electromagnetic nature of the nuclear energy.

Keywords

Nuclear Forces, Coulomb Force, Electromagnetic Forces, Schrödinger Equation, Deuteron

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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