How to Use nucleon in a Sentence

nucleon

noun
  • If scalar particles interact strongly with nucleons, neutron stars today should be far colder than what telescopes detect.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Neutron stars are ideal for this because their interiors are packed with nucleons (protons and neutrons) to an unimaginable degree.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Any scenario in which scalar-nucleon particles interact strongly with protons and neutrons would have cooled these stars far more than what telescopes actually see.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • This is the telltale signature of Δ resonances decaying into pion-nucleon pairs that then coalesce into deuterons.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If hypothetical scalar particles interact with nucleons, neutron stars would be perfect factories for them.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • At the same time, certain ‘magic numbers’ of nucleons, whether protons or neutrons, lead to particularly stable configurations.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Their analysis shows that the scalar–nucleon coupling must be weaker than about 𝑔𝑁≲5×10−14 — the strongest limit ever achieved for this class of particles.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • These resonances are abundant, accounting for roughly 43 percent of nucleon production at the LHC.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026

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