Types of Nuclear Force

On the basis of intensity nuclear force is further classified as,

• Strong Nuclear Force
• Weak Nuclear Force

Strong Nuclear Force

Strong nuclear force is the force that acts between particles such as quarks, and other. It is the strongest force out of the four fundamental forces of interaction.  Two similar charges repel each other because of the Coulomb’s force, but in a nucleus, strong nuclear force overcomes the Colombian forces and keeps protons and protons together inside the nucleus. If the strong nuclear forces that bind protons and neutrons in an atom break, high-energy photons are released. Some of the properties of this force are,

• Strong nuclear forces are responsible for holding the nuclei of atoms stable.
• They are about 10⁶ times greater than the weak nuclear force.
• They work at a distance of less than 10^-15 m.

The magnitude of Strong Nuclear Force is far greater than the electromagnetic and gravitational force. 

Weak Nuclear Force

Weak nuclear force is involved in the particle where radioactive decay occurs. They change neutrons into protons in the process of nuclear decay. Some of the properties of this force are

• They exist between subatomic particles involving radioactive decay.
• They are neither attractive nor repulsive.

Nuclear forces, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force are two of the four fundamental forces of nature other than electromagnetic and gravitational forces. Unlike Coulomb’s Law or Newton’s Law of Gravitation, there is no simple mathematical way to describe nuclear forces. Nuclear forces are one of the strongest forces of nature.

According to the standard model nuclear forces arise due to the exchange of gluons. Since nucleons are made up of quarks, i.e., neutron (udd) and proton (uud), where u and d denote up and down quarks, respectively. The exchange of quarks between the neutron and proton keeps them intact inside the nucleus.