Disruption of the Nuclear Standard Model by the QUEST/RING Theory

After a century of accompanying intense progress in Nuclear Physics, the Standard Model might be now hampering its future developments, because of several doubtful features: its mathematically over exclusive formalism, an oddly missing strategic basis: the directly measured mass of the ubiquitous neutron and last but not least, the left unanswered, very nature of the neutron.

As a huge direct impact, must be linked an unconvincing basis of nuclear mass defects which could be a potential source for the 60 years of disappointing setbacks in hundreds of world nuclear fusion projects. In 2021 APS/DNP MIT Meeting, a new neutronless, quarkless, gluonless atomic nucleus QUEST/RING model was briefly presented. The new, Quest/Ring nucleus, is based on a cluster of sole protons, surrounded by Rings of orbiting high energy electrons. The early concept of electrons in the nucleus had been abandoned because of the arbitrary choice of a neutron heavier than the proton, based, solely, on energy balances. Following historic drop tower experiments by Gustave Eiffel in his Paris Tower, a new test has been proposed, there, for the neutron. The new vital need for a clean energy source should help opening Nuclear Physics to conceptual competition.