In fact, in the zone of the self - organized collapse, we are faced with the process of a distinctive «cold repacking» of nucleons which initially belonged to nuclei of the target. (creationscience.com)
Iron and nickel nuclei have the largest binding energies per nucleon of all nuclei and therefore are the most stable. (sciencedaily.com)
More recently Sofia's efforts have been dedicated to harnessing the effect of projectile and target deformation during a nuclear collision and systematically including three - nucleon forces in her reaction formalism. (llnl.gov)