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Exchange Currents in Nuclei

OCT 01, 1950
R. K. Osborn

The existence of exchange forces between nucleons, that is, of forces requiring the exchange of identity of a proton and neutron during an interaction between them, implies that electric charge must be transferred between the neutron and proton and therefore that electric currents flow in the intervening space between the particles.

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