Thermal energies for nucleons in large nuclei are comparable with their binding energies of about 6 MeV.
(a) To what temperature does this correspond?
(b) Within nuclear matter, identical nucleons are separated by about 2.6 × 10-15 m. What is roughly the minimum temperature needed for them not to be degenerate (i.e., for the number of accessible states to be much larger than the number of particles.)?