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How do mesons explain nuclear stability?
I understand that nuclear stability is explained by the presence of the residual nuclear force, which in turn is a result of the strong nuclear force, which I believe, is mediated between quarks via ...
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Cause of Strong force
What is the origin and cause of the strong interaction which occurs between the nucleons? I have read that it is caused by the exchange of mesons but what then ultimately causes this meson exchange to ...
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Do all hadrons experience the strong nuclear force?
In nuclear physics, nuclear force, also known as the residual strong force, is mediated by pions exchanged between protons and neutrons. It doesn't seem like this should be limited to protons and ...
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Can we say that binding energy is the work done by the strong nuclear force?
I know that the strong nuclear force is the force that holds the nucleus together by overcoming electromagnetic repulsion between protons. Binding energy is the minimum energy that is required to ...
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Does the nuclear interaction favour aligned or anti-aligned spins?
My particle physics lecture notes seem to have contradictory statements.
Firstly they argue that p-n is stable while p-p and n-n are not because the nuclear interaction favours spin alignment (and by ...
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Can strong interaction be repulsive?
I know that the repulsion between nuclei is mostly caused by electrostatic repulsion and Pauli's exclusion principle. But in the sub-nucleus level, is there a condition where the strong interaction ...
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Role of the Yukawa potential
What is the Yukawa potential converging to zero? Afaik the strong potential rises with the distance between quarks, hence, it should rise accordingly.
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Asymmetry in p-p, n-n and n-p interactions
Why does the asymmetry exist between the proton-proton, neutron-neutron and neutron-proton strong interactions in the nucleus (which results in nuclei preferring equal numbers of neutrons and protons)?...
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Is the (range of the) strong force the same for nucleons and quarks?
In high school, I learnt that the strong force held the nucleus together. It had a very short range and was repulsive at small separation distances to prevent the nucleons from collapsing.
Now I am ...
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Is it possible for nucleons to overcome strong force?
I was wondering how it could be possible to artificially overcome the strong nuclear force, allowing for the nucleons to be released from each other.
If you can't think of any possible solution, is ...
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How does the nuclear interaction keep protons and neutrons together?
The strong force holds atoms hadrons together by using gluons to change the color charge of quarks and making the hadrons color nutral.
But how does the nuclear force keep protons together, I heard ...
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How does the exchange of pions result in the strong force?
I understand that the residual strong force is a result of an exchange of pions. But I fail to understand how this exchange results in a force that holds nuclei together! May this query please be ...
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Why does the weak nuclear interaction have a shorter range than strong nuclear interaction?
My textbook says:
"Weak nuclear interaction acts on protons, neutrons, electrons and neutrinos in order to bring about beta decay. It has very short range (10-18m)"
"Strong nuclear interaction ...
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What happens if a neutron flies towards a nucleus?
Rutherford experiment shows that alpha-particles when they fly towards metal foil sometimes (in minority of cases) can bounce. An explanation proposed was that atoms in fact have positively charged ...
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Relation between Strong Forces and Binding Energy
The definition of Strong Force is the force that binds the quarks into the protons and neutrons, and spills over around each proton and neutron and is an attractive one.
And Binding Energy is the ...
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