PROBLEM SET 5, QUESTION 6:

2H is the isotope of hydrogen with two particles. The atomic number is sometimes not written, since each chemical element has a unique atomic number. Hydrogen has atomic number, 1. So the nucleus is 21H, which has one proton and one neutron. If a proton strikes this nucleus, the three particles that emerge must be two protons and a neutron.

In effect, the incoming proton has broken apart the 2H.