Nuclear Binding Energies in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory

Nuclear binding in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory arises from two interactinggeometric mechanisms: (1) n = 2 collapse pressure, the short-range bipolar recursionthat drives nucleons together, and (2) torsion density compression, the curvature-drivenresistance that stabilises nucleons within composite recursion. The n = 6 closuregeometry provides rotational coherence that prevents nucleon collapse, while the n = 2mode provides the binding force. Binding energy emerges from the balance betweenthese modes, modulated by torsion density packing and slip gap alignment. Thisunified hybrid model provides geometric accounts of the short-range nature of nuclearforces, binding energy saturation, the peak at iron, magic numbers, shell structure,alpha clustering, neutron and proton drip lines, and the instability of heavy nuclei.The torsion interval quantities TN and TA used in the binding energy formula aregeometric predictions of the framework; their quantitative values are empirical anchorspending first-principles derivation from the nucleon torsion structure, consistent withthe standards established in the mass spectrum and neutrino papers of this series [7, 8].Quantum chromodynamics provides the successful quantitative description of nuclearforces within its domain; this paper provides the geometric substrate from which thoseforces emerge in the Cohesion UFT.