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I have some read answers on this forum, some books like Halliday Resnick and my course books. I have understood that binding energy is the energy we need to supply to break nucleus into individual nucleons (or the opposite). What I can not understand is why a high binding energy or more released energy helps in stability. Does it somehow offset coulombic repulsion? or should I just take it as a generalisation as in chemistry that an exothermic reaction is more stable?

One more thing, we have been told in class about some theory where neutron and proton convert into each other to gain stability but only in short.

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  • $\begingroup$ "What I can not understand is why a high binding energy or more released energy helps in stability." - check your previous sentence: the higher the binding energy, the more energy you need to supply (and hence harder) in order to separate the nucleus. Also check this, and this and related links. $\endgroup$
    – Vangi
    Commented Mar 21, 2023 at 9:11
  • $\begingroup$ @Vangi Can you please suggest me a good book on nuclear physics, I have a lot of doubts.The answers are on the internet but too hard to find the right ones. $\endgroup$
    – Ayush
    Commented Mar 21, 2023 at 20:09
  • $\begingroup$ I am not very familiar with this subject, so I can not give you a well informed list. The only book I have used is B.R. Martin, Nuclear and Particle Physics, but I don't know how it is compared to other books. There probably are better suggestions on the internet. $\endgroup$
    – Vangi
    Commented Mar 23, 2023 at 2:41

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