An insight into the mechanisms that drive nucleons — protons and neutrons — to form clusters is provided by Ebran and colleagues 1 on page 341 of this issue. They show that a significant ...

Just as people behave differently as couples than as individuals, protons and neutrons (also known as nucleons) inside the nucleus of the atom behave differently in pairs. Just as people behave ...

Most of an atom's mass is packed into its tiny nucleus, which contains protons and neutrons (known collectively as nucleons). Understanding how these nucleons interact to keep the nucleus stable ...

Still, no one knows how those protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) behave inside an atom. Outside an atom, protons and neutrons have definite sizes and shapes. Each of them is made up ...

Still, no one knows how those protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) behave inside an atom. Outside an atom, protons and neutrons have definite sizes and shapes. Each of them is made up of ...

In this artist’s impression, quarks are illustrated as the smaller spheres, which are shown interacting via gluons to create nucleons. A temporary pair of correlated nucleons is highlighted in purple.

He says that he and his colleagues think what's going on is that the roughly 20 percent of the nucleons in a nucleus's correlated pairs at any one time has an out-sized effect on measurements of ...

Researchers perform a global analysis of lead-lead collisions, finding that agreement with the reaction rate requires a much smaller nucleus. Low-energy experiments find a nucleon size of around 0 ...

As its name implies, the strong force is the strongest of the four forces over minuscule distances, and it binds protons and neutrons (collectively known as nucleons) within the atomic nucleus.