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Zelrak t1_ir9ws1e wrote

Reply to comment by Ast0815 in When nucleons bind to form a nucleus, does each nucleon "retain ownership" over its quarks (is each nucleon a truly unique entity)? Or is it possible for quarks to swap from one nucleon to another? Or does it not make sense to talk so exactly about them? by ChrisGnam

Q from someone with high energy theory background but who didn't do much nuclear physics: Given that the nucleus is in a strong coupling regime, what does it mean to talk about a perturbative picture of nuclei exchanging mesons? I always thought of the nucleus as a bag of stuff we don't understand and all we can say is that the whole bag has some given colour, baryon, etc charges, where you can measure form factors and such other phenomenological parameters

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