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Inside the Atom

image: Argonne Physicists Steven Pieper and Bob Wiringa use Argonne 's parallel supercomputers to calculate the forces that bind together nucleons – protons and neutrons – to form atomic nuclei. These images represent different angular momentum states of the deuteron, a two-body hydrogen nucleus comprising one proton and one neutron. view more 

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