Sentences with phrase «larger gold nucleus»
Not exact matches
The number of particles spawned by a collision of two atomic nuclei of gold is larger than what one would get by smashing together the individual particles that make up those nuclei.
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The basic idea is that, in the case of large nuclei such as gold, which have a very large positive electric charge, electromagnetic interactions play a much more important role in particle production than they do in the case when two small, equally charged protons collide.