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OpenStudy (anonymous):

why strong interactions are short lived??

OpenStudy (hunus):

How do you mean?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

talking about strong interactions in nuclear physics....

OpenStudy (hunus):

I know. What do you mean short lived?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

for very less life time...

OpenStudy (hunus):

Well, I'm not precisely sure what you're asking though I'm going to say because it's so strong. It is 10^39 times stronger than gravity. Strong-forces are responsible for the creation of heavy, very short-lived particles though.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

strong interactions happen when particles come close to each other in the nucleur range, past the coulomb barrier. obsviously particles crossing the barrier have gigantic energies on that scale so they are moving fast relative to each other. you can think of these interaction as 2 body or 3 body or more coming close together where the nucleons start to interact. During the interaction, depending on the interaction, even more energy exchange takes place which results in a massive rebound of the particles. Hence whatever happens between these fast moving energetic particles happens fast and then they fly away again in different directions. Think of it as high energy collisions.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

In particle physics, the strong interaction (also called the strong force, strong nuclear force, nuclear strong force) is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature, the others being electromagnetism, the weak interaction and gravitation. At atomic scale, it is about 100 times stronger than electromagnetism, which in turn is orders of magnitude stronger than the weak force interaction and gravitation.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Strong interactions are not short lived. They're short ranged, though, which may be what you meant.

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