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Undergrad What fundamental physics insights can we gain from nuclear physics research?
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Undergrad How to measure ion energy in a plasma?
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Undergrad Forbidden decays and conservation laws
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Graduate CGS units confusions in plasma physics journal papers
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Undergrad What exactly is the amplitude of an interaction?
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Undergrad Why are 'virtual particles' allowed to be 'off-shell'?
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Undergrad Focused proton beam waist diameter
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Undergrad Observation of CP Violation in Charm Decays
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Undergrad Understanding the W Decay Branching Ratio to Quarks & Gluons
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Undergrad Calculate the number of states for a particle in a box
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Graduate Verifications of running charge / running mass
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Undergrad Angular momentum of an Odd-Odd nucleus (in its ground state)
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High School Antimatter in relativistic jets
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High School New Tokamak D Mode Success - Fusion is Almost Here
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Undergrad Lagrangian for a free particle
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High School Tau catalyzed super heavy elements
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Undergrad What are scalar-isoscalar channels?
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High School What ways are there for something to lose mass?
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High School Released energy by fusion reaction
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High School Why are there only two types of electric charge?
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High School Are massless particles truly massless?
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High School My particle simulation version of the Double Slit experiment
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Undergrad The energy released from antimatter annihilation -- New uses?
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Undergrad Binding energy, fusion and fission
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Undergrad Energy Levels: Why Do Spacings Get Smaller as Excitation Increases?
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High School What would happen if we teleport 1mm^3 of neutron star core outside?
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Undergrad Why is there a limit to the number of neutrons in a nucleus?
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Graduate Why does the effectiveness of low-Z shielding increase with photon energy?
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Undergrad How does high level radiation affect lead acid batteries?
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High School What is the true way to determine time parameters from semilog graph?
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High School Quark Gluon Plasma In the Presence of Charged Leptons?
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High School What region in NMR spectrum should I choose for integration?
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Graduate Pair Production in static fields
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Graduate Pion Two Body Decay Simulation: Efficiency and Impurity Analysis
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Graduate Ladder operators in electron field and electron's charge
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Graduate Can Multi-Layered Buckyonions Enhance Beta-Decay Rates?
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Undergrad The fate of neutron rich nuclei
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Undergrad Explicit computation of mass counter term diagrams
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Graduate About the Bargmann-Wigner Method
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High School How do we know there is one proton in H?
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Undergrad Can any element be photodisintegrated
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Graduate How Does the Bethe-Bloch Formula Estimate Muon Energy Loss in NaI Scintillators?
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Graduate Obtaining the CDSA range of Bethe-Bloch Equation
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Graduate Nuclear Interactions: Inelastic and elastic scattering
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Graduate Questions about activation energy for fission
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Graduate How do I calculate the average energy of a particle leaving a nuclear reaction?
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Graduate How Does Classical Radiation Pressure Depend on Brightness and Frequency?
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Graduate Negative Hydrogen Ions in Cyclotrons and elsewhere
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Graduate Density waves in gravitationally interacting particles
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High School Can the Proton's 10e35 Pascals Outward Force Be True?
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Graduate SLC Asymmetry: Measuring A_LR with Unpolarized Beam
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High School Physicists spot the signatures of nuclear fusion in a table-top device
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Graduate CNO Fusion Cross-sections for proton nitrogen-15
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Graduate Explanation of Higgs mass exclusion graphs?
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Graduate What caused the unexplained Zen events at CERN in 1985?
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Undergrad Brian Cox video Discusses Cosmology and CERN supercollider
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Graduate Higgs mechanism and vacuum instability
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Graduate Electron anomalous magnetic moment
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Graduate MOOC on The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
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Graduate Potential Impacts of Hydron Collider: Examined?
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Graduate How Do Box Diagrams Affect B-Bbar Mixing in the Standard Model?
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Graduate Deflecting high energy proton beam
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Graduate 19 March LHC gets 3.5 TeV in both beams, a first.
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Graduate Neutrino Detection: Uncovering Deuterium and Oxygen Reactions
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Graduate Typical cross sections for ee-uu scattering
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Graduate Neutron Time of Flight Jacobian
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Graduate Mass-Energy Conversion in Bound Systems
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Graduate Help with population of various isotopes in decay chains (Bateman equations)
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Graduate Limiting factor for tube dimensions in beam delivery system
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Graduate Question about Plasma Windows & Interaction with Magnetic Fields
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Graduate Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment
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Graduate Electroweak symmetry breaking without Higgs boson?
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Graduate When two deuterium nuclei are shot at each other they have some
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Graduate LHC to skip low-energy test runs
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Graduate Plotting a Kurie Plot with a PHA
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Graduate Stellar nuclear fusion: Mean cross section and velocity theorem
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Graduate Coincidence summing in gamma ray spectrometry
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Graduate Is Energy of Gauge Bosons matched by Binding Energy?
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Graduate Particle collider imaging process
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Undergrad Can Gamma Radiation Penetrate a Geiger Counter from Any Direction?
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Graduate Can anyone explain nuclear recoil..
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Undergrad Neutron-Neutrino collisions and the W bosons
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Graduate How wise/unwise would it be to attempt to create a strangelet?
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Undergrad Parallel plate particle acceleraton questions
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Undergrad Xenon 124 -- How did they calculate the half life? (trillions of years)
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Graduate What procedure do scientists use to get time on a collider/particle accelerator?
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High School Energy conservation in nuclear fission
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High School The difference in the binding energy per nucleon
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Graduate Solving the Three Body Problem for Proton Decay Trajectory
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Undergrad Proton momentum distribution inside deuterium
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High School Practical Antimatter Production
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Graduate Equation describing linear energy transfer
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Graduate Initial states ppbar can proceed to npi^0 with parity conserved
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Graduate Helicity and electron/positron annihilation
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Undergrad Understanding Spinor's Helicity
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Undergrad Can Particles Defy Time by Reaching Below Absolute Zero?
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Undergrad The Confinement Radius of a Cosmic Ray (Galactic vs. Extra-galactic)
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Graduate Classical particle in a 2D box
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Graduate Phasing 2 Electrons' Wavefunctions
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Undergrad Confused about particle interactions
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