Saturation of the Nuclear forces

[ghery]

Hello:

The nucleons insede a nuclei, interact only with the closest nucleons, How does QCD explain that the nuclear forces saturate?

Thanks

[malawi_glenn]

saturates comes from the fact that the force betweens nucleons are short-ranged.

Deriving the nucleon-nucleon force from QCD is extremley difficult! See threads:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=252128
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=251456