Definitions

1. The nuclear force is a short-range force.
2. The nuclear force is also known as the strong force. (Web site)
3. The nuclear force is a strong attractive force that is independent of charge. (Web site)
4. Nuclear force - The nuclear force (or nucleon-nucleon-interaction or residual-strong-force) is the force between two or more nucleons.
5. Nuclear force - The nuclear force (or nucleon-nucleon-interaction or residual-strong-force) is the force between two or more nucleon s.

Nuclear Forces

1. The binding energy is the energy required to break strong nuclear force, and the nucleus actually has less energy (equal to binding energy). (Web site)
2. The nuclear force has been at the heart of nuclear physics ever since the field was born in 1932 with the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick. (Web site)
3. There has been substantial progress in experiment and theory related to the nuclear force. (Web site)
4. The neutrons help to mediate the strong nuclear force. (Web site)
5. In order to effect such a switching of the orbital angular momentum the nuclear force must apply a torque.

Interaction

1. The nuclear force (or nucleon-nucleon interaction or residual strong force) is the force between two or more nucleons. (Web site)
2. For the "strong nuclear force" see strong interaction; for the "weak nuclear force", see weak interaction. (Web site)
3. The same diagram with the individual quark constituents shown, to illustrate how the fundamental strong interaction gives rise to the nuclear force. (Web site)
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5. The nuclear force depends on whether the nucleon spins are parallel or antiparallel.

Quantum Chromodynamics

1. In particle physics, a hadron is a subatomic particle which experiences the strong nuclear force.
2. Since nucleons have no color charge, the nuclear force does not directly involve the force carriers of quantum chromodynamics, the gluons.
3. Pions are the lightest mesons and play an important role in explaining low-energy properties of the strong nuclear force. (Web site)
4. If the particle exchanged is the pion then R = 1.4 fm which fits very well with the range of the nuclear force.
5. Then similar wisdom was applied to the strong nuclear force to yield quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, and this theory was also renormalizing able.

Protons

1. Nuclei are bound by an attractive strong nuclear force between nucleons, which overcomes the electrostatic repulsion between protons. (Web site)
2. At short distances, the nuclear force is stronger than the Coulomb force; it can overcome the Coulomb repulsion of protons inside the nucleus. (Web site)
3. The nuclear force keeps nucleons together, whereas electric repulsion between protons tries to break the nucleus into smaller pieces. (Web site)
4. Protons attract each other via the strong nuclear force while they repel each other via the electric force. (Web site)
5. Fission can be seen as a "tug-of-war" between the strong attractive nuclear force and the repulsive electrostatic force. (Web site)

Yukawa

1. However, the strong nuclear force acts only over extremely short ranges, since it follows a Yukawa potential. (Web site)
2. In 1935, Hideki Yukawa made the earliest attempt to explain the nature of the nuclear force. (Web site)
3. Theoretical work by Hideki Yukawa in 1935 had predicted the existence of mesons as the carrier particles of the strong nuclear force. (Web site)

Short-Range

1. The predicate weak derives from the fact that the field strength is some 10 9 times less than that of the strong nuclear force.
2. The short-range of LeSage-s gravity becomes an advantage in explaining the pion mediated strong nuclear force. (Web site)
3. Quantum field theories for the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force have been developed. (Web site)
4. The ratio of two forces--the short-range nuclear force and the long-range electromagnetic force--determines the stability of nuclei. (Web site)

Together

1. The fluid is made of nucleons, and is held together by the strong nuclear force.
2. Atomic nuclei consist of protons and neutrons bound together by the strong nuclear force.
3. The quarks are held together by the strong nuclear force, which is mediated by gluons. (Web site)
4. It also causes forces between hadrons, such as the strong nuclear force that makes protons and neutrons bind together to form nuclei.

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1. The weak nuclear force is a very curious type of ‘force'.

Photons

1. Models which unify the strong nuclear force with electroweak theory are known as grand unified theories or GUTs. (Web site)
2. In the 1960s, particle physicists reached towards something called a dual resonance model in an attempt to describe the strong nuclear force. (Web site)
3. Scientists tried to create a similar theory of nuclear forces based on the interaction of protons and neutrons with some particle analogous to photons. (Web site)

Weak Force

1. The electromagnetic force is weaker than the strong nuclear force but stronger than the weak force and gravity.
2. He combined two forces of the universe, the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force.

Beta Decay

1. The Weak nuclear force (different from the strong force) provides the potential energy for certain kinds of radioactive decay, such as beta decay. (Web site)
2. The four known fundamental interactions are electromagnetism, strong interaction, weak interaction (also known as "weak nuclear force") and gravitation. (Web site)
3. Leptons include electrons (along with muons and neutrinos); they have no measurable size, and they are not affected by the strong nuclear force. (Web site)

Symmetry

1. In quantum mechanical systems, it turns out that the weak nuclear force is not invariant under T-symmetry alone.
2. Following the spectacular success of quantum electrodynamics in the 1950s, attempts were undertaken to formulate a similar theory of the weak nuclear force.

Nuclei

1. Alpha particles are emitted by very large nuclei where the strong nuclear force is insufficient to hold the nuclei together.
2. So, once the larger nucleus can overcome the strong nuclear force which holds it together, it can fission. (Web site)

Neutrinos

1. The other three fundamental forces are the gravitational force, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force.
2. Neutrinos have a very small mass, do not interact via either the electromagnetic or the strong nuclear force and are therefore very difficult to detect. (Web site)

Bosons

1. The W and Z bosons are carrier particles that mediate the weak nuclear force, much like the photon is the carrier particle for the electromagnetic force.
2. The weak nuclear force is carried by three vector gauge bosons, the W +, W -, and Z 0 particles. (Web site)
3. Note that two of the force carrier particles (Z & W) are for the weak nuclear force, and that the graviton is not included. (Web site)

Proton

1. In beta plus decay, a proton is converted to a neutron via the weak nuclear force and a beta plus particle (a positron) and a neutrino are emitted. (Web site)
2. In this decay a neutron in the nitrogen nucleus is turned into a proton and an electron by the weak nuclear force. (Web site)
3. In quantum chromodynamics, the modern theory of the nuclear force, most of the mass of the proton and the neutron is explained by special relativity. (Web site)

Mesons

1. The muon was initially believed to be the unstable particle predicted by Hideki Yukawa in 1935 in his theory of the nuclear force. (Web site)
2. This charge entirely separate from electric charge gives rise to the Weak Nuclear Force.

String Theory

1. Then similar wisdom was applied to the strong nuclear force to yield quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, and this theory was also renormalizable. (Web site)
2. This branch of string theory may lead to new insights on quantum chromodynamics, a gauge theory which is the fundamental theory of the strong nuclear force. (Web site)
3. In particle physics, a hadron is a subatomic particle which experiences the strong nuclear force. (Web site)

Nucleus

1. At the nuclear level, binding energy is derived from the strong nuclear force and is the energy required to disassemble a nucleus into neutrons and protons.
2. Leptons are subatomic particles that are susceptible to the weak nuclear force but not the strong force (the force that binds an atomic nucleus together). (Web site)
3. The strong nuclear force acts on hadrons, but does not act on leptons (electrons are unaffected by the strong force). (Web site)

Elementary Particles

1. The quarks are held together by the strong nuclear force, mediated by elementary particles called gluons.
2. While neutron stars are clearly bound by gravity, not the nuclear force, the issue is whether there is a bound state of neutron matter at any density. (Web site)

Gluons

1. The nuclear force acts between hadrons, such as nucleons in atomic nuclei. (Web site)
2. Gluinos are Majorana fermions and interact via the strong nuclear force as an octet of color. (Web site)

Quarks

1. The strong nuclear force or strong interaction is a fundamental force of nature which affects only quarks, antiquarks, and gluons. (Web site)
2. The two up quarks and one down quark of the proton are also held together by the strong nuclear force, mediated by gluons. (Web site)

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