Individual protons and neutrons maintain their identity inside an atomic nucleus

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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.

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The retrieved physics papers discussing nuclear structure, quark-meson coupling models, and QCD parton distributions consistently model nuclei using individual nucleons and correlated nucleon pairs as fundamental constituents, supporting the premise that protons and neutrons maintain their identity within the nucleus.

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Hot nuclear matter in the quark meson coupling model

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P. K. Panda, A. Mishra, J. M. Eisenberg, W. Physik, J. W. G. Universitat, F. Main, G. D. O. Physics, Astronomy, T. University, T. Aviv, Israel. Hot nuclear matter in the quark meson coupling model. 1997. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.56.3134

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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Modification of Quark-Gluon Distributions in Nuclei by Correlated Nucleon Pairs.

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A. Denniston, T. Ježo, A. Kusina, N. Derakhshanian, P. Duwentäster, O. Hen, C. Keppel, M. Klasen, K. Kovařík, J. Morfin, K. Muzakka, F. Olness, E. Piasetzky, P. Risse, R. Ruiz, I. Schienbein, J. Yu.. Modification of Quark-Gluon Distributions in Nuclei by Correlated Nucleon Pairs.. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.152502

Paper 7 models nuclear structure using individual nucleons and pairs of correlated nucleons within QCD parton frameworks.

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judged → SUPPORTED · 8501 Aug 2026

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