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I wanted to ask about the formation of deuterium in a star. I read that two protons will join together and that one of the protons will transmute to a neutron due to quark transformation via the weak interaction that will generate a W boson which decays to a positron and a neutrino. It is not clear to me why the proximity of two proton cause the proton to transmute to a neutron.
I am guessing the strong force is involved in some way by what they call the pions (quark - antiquark pairs of different quarks) but I do not understand why only one of the protons would transmute and further why one of them needs to transmute at all - are not protons found in multiples in many nucleuses? Can someone explain further?
thanks
I am guessing the strong force is involved in some way by what they call the pions (quark - antiquark pairs of different quarks) but I do not understand why only one of the protons would transmute and further why one of them needs to transmute at all - are not protons found in multiples in many nucleuses? Can someone explain further?
thanks