Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei do not behave according to predictions
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 16:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei turn out not to behave according to the predictions made by existing theoretical models. This surprising conclusion, reached by an international team of physicists, forces us to reconsider how we have been describing large atomic nuclei for the past several decades.