... text: W.E Burcham and M Jobes, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd, Harlow, 1995 Supplementary references B.R Martin and G Shaw, Particle Physics, John Wiley and sons, Chicester, ... description as individual particles and as a collective whole characterises much of “low-energy” nuclear physics 2.5 Low-energy nuclear physics The field of low-energy nuclear physics, which concentrates ... protons and neutrons One example are the nuclei He and B (2 protons and neutrons, Iz = −3/2 vs protons and neutrons, Iz = 3/2) and Li and B (3 protons and neutrons, Iz = −1/2 vs protons and neutrons,...