Nuclear Potential: Primary Info & Resources

[sah-sah]

i need some primary information about nuclear potential.

 

[granpa]

As usual there is a nice neat wikipedia article
that explains it all perfectly and succinctly
in utterly incomprehensible babelese.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_potential

 

[tom.stoer]

What do you mean by "nuclear potential"? A potential responsible for the binding of nucleons inside the nucleus?

Unfortunately the Yukawa potential is not sufficient to describe the various aspects of the strong force beyond a rather rough approximation. There are spin- and isospin-dependent terms, there are higher exchange terms involving heavier mesons which results in new exponentially suppressed terms etc.

For example the Yukawa potential cannot explain the difference between the deuteron and the di-neutron (which does not exist) - https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=406864&highlight=dineutron

 

[inflector]

i need some primary information about nuclear potential.

Do you mean nuclear binding energy?