| A classic series of such experiments performed at SLAC in the 1960s and 1970s was crucial in convincing researchers that they were seeing quarks inside nucleons. |
| Photons can also be produced when nucleons in nuclei lose excess energy in a similar manner. |
| This repulsion is of fundamental importance in conventional nuclear physics because it prevents mergers that would obliterate the identity of individual nucleons. |
| It is assumed that these forces provide a balance between nucleons with much smaller mass, the mesons. |
| It is a well verified fact that the more numerous nucleons are in any given atomic nucleus, the less massive each of them are. |
| This particular arrangement of nucleons is unstable and so tritium readily undergoes radioactive decay to yield a helium atom. |
