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High School What does QFT really predict about matter/anti-matter interactions?
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Undergrad Nuclear Doppler broadening of resonances
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High School Nuclear binding FORCE or ENERGY?
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Undergrad Relation between tensor decomposition and helicity amplitude
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Graduate Cluster Decomposition.Vanishing of the connected part of the S matrix.
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Graduate Charge of the Vacuum in QED: Meaning & Implications
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Undergrad What is the point of regularization?
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Undergrad Boltzmann particle distinguishability
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Undergrad Interpreting SM Lagrangian "differential particle" terms
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Graduate Verifying the Relation in Yang-Mills Theory with a Scalar Field
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Graduate Is There an Open Source Code for (a,n) Reaction Simulation?
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Undergrad Does a photon experience time while interacting with the weak force?
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Undergrad Hadronization in electron-positron collisions
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Graduate Understanding Integration by Parts in Quantum Field Theory
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Undergrad Why do some mesons have = sign while others have ≈ in their composition?
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Undergrad Electroweak force and electrons
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Undergrad Can a White Dwarf Collapse into a Neutron Star Without a Supernova?
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Undergrad Equation of motion Chern-Simons
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Undergrad Isobar states decay probabilities
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Undergrad Critical radius for nuclear reactions
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Graduate How does Peskin derive equations 2.51 and 2.52 from equation 2.50 on page 27?
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High School How does one change the isotope of an element?
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Graduate Decomposition of tensors into irreps (Georgi's book)
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High School Could you travel using nuclear bombs?
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High School Differential cross sections in Pythia
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High School Color Confinement in Dense Regions?
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Graduate How Does the Majorana Neutrino Behave in Matter?
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High School Why Do Measured Nuclear Radii Differ from Predicted Values?
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High School Electron - Up Quark Interactions
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Graduate Questions from Peskin & Schroeder 5.5 about Compton Scattering
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Graduate Temperature of beta decay radioisotope (Sr-90)
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Undergrad What happens to the rest of the mass in Beta+ decay involving a W+ boson?
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Undergrad Differential cross-sectional area - Rutherford's experiment
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Graduate Vlasov-Fokker-Plank(VFP) equation from Boltzmann equation
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Graduate Does Charge Conjugation change the electromagnetic field?
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Graduate Dissociative ionization Monte Carlo simulations
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Undergrad Nuclear physics exercises translation from Dutch to English
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High School Do electron antineutrinos interact with anything?
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Undergrad Advancements in Cyclotron Particle Accelerator Design: A Scientist's Perspective
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Graduate Radioisotope-induced radioactivity in a protein molecule
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High School Can Centrifuging Nuclear Waste Recover Rare Earth Elements?
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High School Are Δ- and Δ+ Antiparticles of Each Other?
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Undergrad Making World's Smallest MEMS Accelerometer
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Undergrad Particle Physics vs Quantum Field Theory vs Standard Model
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Graduate Why is unitarity important for validating effective field theories (EFT)?
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High School Deriving Exponential Decay Equation
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High School Do Helium Atoms Decay in Complete Isolation?
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Graduate Notes on Cosmic rays - wave interactions in plasmas
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Undergrad Interpretation of a cross section vs energy graph
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Undergrad Are no chemical elements truly stable?
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Graduate Intuitive Meaning of the Coleman-Mandula Theorem
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Undergrad Yang-Mills Lagrangian: Is ##F^{\mu \nu}F_{\mu \nu}## a Number?
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High School Matter & Antimatter: Attraction & Annihilation Evidence?
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Undergrad Redundancy in QCD: Is su(4)=su(2)xsu(2) Possible?
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Undergrad Why is there this extra term for this correlation function?
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Graduate Reference for the A field of the Weak Force
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Undergrad Deadtime in Triggers: Explained
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Undergrad Relativistic particle in non-uniform magnetic field (math)
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Graduate What Are the Sigma Barred Variables in Weinberg's Spin Statistics Equation?
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Undergrad Does Lattice QCD use virtual gluons?
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Graduate Why Is the Mixed SU(2) Term Invariant in Scalar Multiplet Models?
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Graduate Neutron Decay: Questions & Answers
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Undergrad Pair Production in Empty Space
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Undergrad Feynman Diagrams: ψφ → ψφ | Tips & Advice
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High School Can Protons Decay at High Speeds without Colliding?
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Graduate Photons per unit of Energy in Cherenkov radiation?
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Undergrad Gluons: Particles or Not? Evidence for their Particle Nature
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High School Collider in Space? LHC Possibilities Beyond Earth
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Undergrad Top Quark Production in p-p Collisions
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Undergrad Standard Model (Forces interacting with Matter)
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Undergrad Particle track resolution of the positive lambda particle
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Graduate Relation between chirality and spin
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Undergrad Quark flavor and color independent?
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Graduate Plotting a Bragg Curve in SRIM
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Undergrad Mass counter term is a derivative at tree level?
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Vector Plasma vs. Variable Radioactive Decay
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Undergrad Physical interpretation of a plasma (Te, Tv, Tr)
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Graduate Re-exciting organic scintillator
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Undergrad Computing QED amplitudes in a collider
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Undergrad Why is Proton Radiation this Rare in Nuclear Fission Decay?
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Undergrad New: The CLIC 2018 Summary Report
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Undergrad Why there is a general lack of neutrons in the Earth?
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High School What is the Most Efficient Fuel for Fusion Reactors: T-D, D-D, or D+He-3?
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Graduate Influence on Neutron spectrum due to energy loss of beam
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Undergrad What Does the Shape of the Higgs Potential Tell Us?
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Undergrad LHC finishes proton-proton collisions in 2018
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Graduate Fields transforming in the adjoint representation?
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Graduate Why does the cross section for Dark Matter decrease with increasing mass?
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High School Moving Center of Mass Collisions
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Graduate Need help with the reaction of neutrons and electrons
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Undergrad Why does LHC have 8 interaction points?
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Undergrad Long-range beam-beam interactions
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Graduate Why do we write that there are no right-handed neutrinos?
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High School Electron scattering off of a nucleus
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Undergrad Why do stars only produce up to iron and nickel
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Undergrad Reconciling alpha particle mass
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Graduate Steps in an electron's magnetic moment derivation
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Graduate Small & large argument expansion of plasma dispersion function
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High School Electron-positron bremsstrahlung
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Undergrad Head-on collision of an electron and a proton
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