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• TITLE: Short-range action and long-range action of the electrostatic forces within atomic nuclei

  AUTHORS: Dragia Ivanov, Kiril Kolikov

  KEYWORDS: Nucleon; Electrostatic Force of Interaction; Strong Interaction; Long-Range-Acting Forces; Short-Range-Acting Forces

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Science, Vol.5 No.4, April 25, 2013

  ABSTRACT: We study the interaction forces in atomic nuclei based on our expressions for the electrostatic interaction between spheres of arbitrary radii and charges. We prove that at small distances the proton-neutron electrostatic attraction forces are short-range-acting and the proton-proton electrostatic repulsion forces are long-range-acting. We obtain that these forces are commensurate with the nuclear forces. The protonneutron electrostatic attraction forces and the proton-proton electrostatic repulsion forces at the same distance between nucleons differ in absolute value by about an order of magnitude. It follows that based on electromagnetic interactions the neutrons are the binding building blocks in nuclear structures.