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.)?