Individual protons and neutrons maintain their identity inside an atomic nucleus
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 85/100
Standard nuclear physics models and QCD analyses treat atomic nuclei as composed of individual protons and neutrons (and their constituent quarks) that retain their distinct identities within the nuclear medium.
Evidence for · 2
Hot nuclear matter in the quark meson coupling model
1997 · cited by 35
Paper 1 discusses nuclear matter models that explicitly account for the composite nature of nucleons (protons and neutrons) built from quarks.
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More for · 1
Modification of Quark-Gluon Distributions in Nuclei by Correlated Nucleon Pairs.
2023 · cited by 12
Paper 7 models nuclear structure using individual nucleons and pairs of correlated nucleons within QCD parton frameworks.