Probably ~ depends on how you get there. If you're banging protons into the nucleus at just under the speed of light (so that the Coulombe barrier is overcome) I suppose you could get all kinds of stuff.
If all you're doing is stuffing a single proton in there you ought to get some other result.
So, tell us how you are going to do it ~ 1 low velocity proton, or maybe even a neutron, into one nickel atom, or maybe 10,000 protons bearing down on a single atom ~ somewhere in there.
I'm just guessing that if it's one proton, one nucleus and go we should have a simple result.
Just stirring the pot in order to annoy people, but why can't the reaction involve slamming a
neutron into the metal nucleus? What mechanism is there for converting a proton into a neutron, and then slamming *THAT* into the copper or nickel or Dennis Kucinich? (Like, nuclear physics, not chemistry, eh?)
Cheers!