Rules For Nuclear Couples (IMAGE)

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Rules For Nuclear Couples

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Calcium-40, Calcium-48, and Iron-54 (protons in blue; neutrons in red). Lower right: a schematic of an electron (purple) scattering off a nucleus and emitting a virtual photon (purple), which knocks out a proton (blue) from a correlated neutron-proton pair in the nucleus.

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Nature/University of Tennessee

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