  The mechanism of elementary particle mass generation is a fundamental issue
of physics. While cardinal progress has recently been achieved in the case of
leptons and current quarks through the Brout-Engler-Higgs mechanism, this issue
is at the stage of searching for the constituent quarks forming the nucleon
mass. A deep similarity is noted in the paper between the constituent quark
states arising in central inelastic $NN$ collisions within a certain energy
interval and the QCD matter states at the cosmological stage of nucleon mass
generation. This gives rise to special attention to the investigation of both
issues.
