Quark Confinement and Hadron Structure in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory

Quarks in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory are fractional closure segments of then = 6 recursion geometry. Their confinement arises from the geometric impossibility ofsustaining continuance without completing the full closure: a fractional closure cannotsatisfy the torsion accumulation, slip threshold, and surplus-collapse balance conditionsrequired for stable recursion. Hadrons — baryons and mesons — are composite recursionstructures in which fractional closures combine to form complete torsion cycles. Colorcharge is slip phase complementarity: three quarks in a baryon occupy three nonoverlapping slip phases that sum to the full n = 6 cycle. Confinement is therefore ageometric consequence of the operator set, not a force. The fractional closure coefficientsα are empirical anchors pending first-principles derivation from the torsion intervalstructure; their connection to fractional charge (charge as surplus asymmetry of thefractional closure) is identified but not yet quantified. Quantum chromodynamicsprovides the successful quantitative description of hadron structure within its domain;this paper provides the geometric substrate from which quark confinement and compositehadron structure emerge in the Cohesion UFT framework.