I've been thinking about the possibility of the proton evolving without external interactions and came up with the following problem. Let's say we have an isolated proton and therfore the Lagrangian for its dynamics is simply QCD's:
$$ {\cal L}_{int} = \sum_{a = 1}^8\bar{q}\gamma_\mu G^{a, \mu}T^a q $$
where $q$ is the quark field with internal sum on flavour and colour degrees of freedom, $G$ is the gluon field and $\{T^a, a = \{1, 2, ..., 8\}\}$ is the set of generators for $SU(3)$.
Thus, according to the QFT there exist the possibility for the proton to evolve with scattering matrix $\hat{S}$ such that
$$ \hat{S} = \exp\left( i{\cal L}_{int} \right) \approx 1 + i{\cal L}_{int} $$
so if initial proton state is a momentum state $|p\rangle$ and final is $|p^\prime\rangle$, then
$$ \langle p^\prime | \hat{S} |p\rangle \approx \langle p^\prime |p\rangle + \langle p^\prime | i{\cal L}_{int}|p\rangle \tag1 $$
Energy conservation provides $p = p^\prime$, hence $\langle p | i{\cal L}_{int}|p\rangle = 0$ which provides $i{\cal L}_{int}|p\rangle = |q\rangle \neq |p\rangle$, a momentum state different from the initial one.
But my quandary is: is there any way to determine in case $p \neq p^\prime$ that $\langle p^\prime | i{\cal L}_{int}|p\rangle \equiv 0$ or different from zero?