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Distance between two nucleons
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[QUOTE="crick, post: 6018581, member: 568971"] The potential energy associated to the interaction between nucleons has its minimum (point of equilibrium) at ##r\sim 0.7 fm##, as showed in the following graph: [ATTACH=full]227378[/ATTACH] Nevertheless, there are two facts that are, apparently, in contrast with this: - The average distance between nucleons is ##\sim 1-2 fm## - The average nucleon density is ##\sim 0.17\,\,\ \mathrm{nucleons /fm^3}## (These two are related because from the second follows a volume of ##\sim 6 fm^2## per nucleon which is in agreement with the average distance between nucleons) So why is the average distance between nucleons usually greater that the ##0.7 fm## where the potential energy is minimum? I'm aware that the "dimension" of nucleon is ##\sim 1 fm##. But is this the reason why the distance between two of them cannot be much less? [/QUOTE]
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