photons and particle interaction

crabie

I wonder how the radiation will interact with matter on a hypothetical place where the atoms have no electrons. Will the photons and particles will interact with matter to produce any effects like that on earth.

I dont think there will be any compton effect, photoelctric effect, pair production, ionization etc. Only effect i could think of is nuclear fission or fusion.
Anyone else has any thoughts on this ?

PRodQuanta

I'm pretty sure that momments after the Big Bang, there were particles without electrons, do to the extremely high amount of energy. Maybe read some books on that, or conduct a query on google.

Paden Roder

mathman

Some nuclides have excited states. There has been some discussion about Hf-172 being used as an energy source this way.