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We propose that the one-fold selfintersecting center-vortex loop, being thestable excitation in the confining phase of SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics ofscale $\Lambda\sim 0.5\,$MeV, after an electric-magnetically dualinterpretation of this theory represents the electron/positron. Our argumentinvokes recent results on the physics of a strongly and spherically perturbed't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, the role of the central spatial region in aHarrington-Shepard (HS) (anti)caloron, the latter's deformation towardsmaximally non-trivial holonomy and subsequent dissociation into a pair of ascreened BPS monopole and antimonopole, the energy-density of the deconfiningthermal ground state, and the critical temperature $T_c$ for thedeconfining-preconfining transition. We estimate the typical spatial extent ofthe selfintersection region and the monopole core size, implying that theelectron/positron, judged by its Compton wave length, is anything but a pointparticle. Our results support and elucidate the ideas of Louis de Broglie onthe thermodynamics of an isolated particle.

The isolated, uniformly moving electron: Selfintersecting SU(2) Yang-Mills center vortex loop and Louis de Broglie's hidden thermodynamics