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# Understanding Nuclear Binding Energy with Strong and Electroweak Coupling Constants

Version 1 : Received: 9 October 2017 / Approved: 12 October 2017 / Online: 12 October 2017 (04:39:19 CEST)

How to cite: Seshavatharam, U.S.; Lakshminarayana, S. Understanding Nuclear Binding Energy with Strong and Electroweak Coupling Constants. Preprints 2017, 2017100075 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201710.0075.v1). Seshavatharam, U.S.; Lakshminarayana, S. Understanding Nuclear Binding Energy with Strong and Electroweak Coupling Constants. Preprints 2017, 2017100075 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201710.0075.v1).

## Abstract

At nuclear scale, we present three heuristic relations pertaining to strong and electroweak coupling constants. With these relations, close to beta stability line, it is possible to study nuclear binding energy with a single energy coefficient of magnitude $\left(\frac{1}{{\alpha }_{s}}\right)\left[\frac{{e}^{2}}{4\pi {\epsilon }_{0}{R}_{0}}\right]\approx 10.0\text{MeV}\text{.}$ With reference to up and down quark masses, it is also possible to interpret that, nuclear binding energy is proportional to the mean mass of $\left[\left(2{m}_{u}+{m}_{d}\right)\text{and}\left({m}_{u}+2{m}_{d}\right)\right]\approx 10.0\text{MeV}.$

## Keywords

nuclear charge radius; strong coupling constant; Fermi’s weak coupling constant; nuclear binding energy coefficient

## Subject

PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Nuclear & High Energy Physics

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