A composite neutron model

A composite neutron model is proposed within the context of the author's approach to elementary matter from general relativity. An earlier analysis, that led to the conclusion that all observed matter is in a background matter field of (a countable set of) particle-antiparticle pairs, each in a (derived) state of null energy and null momentum, leads to the possibility of describing the neutron as a proton bound to an electron in the nucleon domain, through the intermediary of a single proton-antiproton pair of the background. The electromagnetic field of the latter is represented here in terms of a two-component spinor variable (coming from a factorization of Maxwell's equations) and the system p+(p--p+)e- is then a fermion. A discussion is given to such a compound as a neutron in terms of its binding energy and its magnetic moment, and to the implication of a resonance in (e,n) scattering. (author)