Vo, I was thinking about your desire to have quasi-particles, which are low energy collective phenomena operating over several 10s of nm, somehow do the impossible and behave like a real particle with reduced charge etc. It is understood that quasi particles are a approximation attempt to multi-body dynamics - the lattice (i.e. everything else) distorts around the particles of interest and we say they are paired etc.
I was sceptical of low energy collective phenomena which apply to electrons (leptons) being applied to hadrons (the wavelength would be too short) but is there another way... I was looking at the wandering planets thread and probably the reason for the observed ejection is a phenomena called "digital energy drift" (wiki it). However it is known that collective systems of particles in orbit can chaotically throw out a member we high energy. Is there some basis in collections of atoms ejecting an atom at high energy so that it over comes the Coulomb barrier? You'd still need to explain lack of neutrons and gamma and how all that energy gets dissipated. Just a thought. JF.
