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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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High School Is the Strong Force Really Stronger Than the Electromagnetic Force?
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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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Undergrad How accurate are radon detectors?
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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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Graduate Ion Generation Troubleshooting: Overcoming Limitations in Small Ion Accelerators
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Undergrad How Much Better Will Top and Higgs Mass Measurements Get?
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Undergrad Ion sensor for 1e20 ions/m3 density
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Undergrad Nitrogen production in stellar nucleosynthesis?
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Undergrad Effect of errors due to branching and acceptances
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Undergrad Has anyone worked on higher dimensional strings?
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Graduate Physical significance of growth rate in plasma
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High School Why is the Higgs not considered 'a 5th force'?
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Undergrad What Does Gauge Invariance Tell Us About Reality?
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Graduate New Covariant QED representation of the E.M. field
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Undergrad Gluon creation and annihilation operators
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Graduate Neutrino Electron Scattering In The Standard Model Approach
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Graduate Neutrino Electron Scattering In The Standard Model Approach
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Undergrad Can a liquid or solid plasma exist?
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High School Does background radiation have a diurnal variation?
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High School Is 3-point of H20 used for Kelvin a certain set of isotope
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Graduate Reference for Hadron mass & spin problem?
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Undergrad Derivative changes under CPT transformations
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Graduate Is the Mystery Particle Discovery Just Media Hype?
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Undergrad Are There Any Theories for the Mystery Particle at 28 GeV?
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Undergrad Can Cosmic Rays Be Economically Used in Particle Accelerators?
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Undergrad Measurement of Earth's mass - with neutrinos
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High School What Does It Mean For A Force To Act On A Particle?
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Graduate What Does the Higgs Boson Reveal About the Nature of Electron Mass?
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Undergrad What are the magnetic states of nucleons?
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Graduate Lorentz invariance from Dirac spinor
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Graduate Grassmann numbers and Fermions
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Graduate Spin direction of quarks in a baryon
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Graduate Yang-Mills 3 boson Lagrangian term in Peskin and Schroeder
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High School Using muon-catalyzation toward Island of Stability?
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High School How Does Proton Spin Influence Its Magnetic Field?
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Undergrad Show How Theta Term in QCD Lagrangian is a Total Derivative
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High School Particle behavior and the Doppler effect
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Graduate What does Schwarz's QFT theorem say about poles in Green's functions?
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Undergrad What is a Proton Made Of and What Does It Look Like Under a Microscope?
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High School Radioactive decay characteristics as measured by a dosimeter
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Undergrad How can I use the NIST XCOM online tool to calculate X and Gamma shielding?
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Graduate What is the key parameter in fusion: momentum or energy?
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Graduate How do Fusion/Fission Gamma Rays Compare?
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Undergrad Calculate Muon Energy Loss with Bethe-Bloch Calculator
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High School How Did Polonium-210 Contaminate London in the Litvinenko Case?
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High School Is Radioactive Decay Truly Random?
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Graduate What is the significance of large logarithms in RG calculations?
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High School Why is there still disagreement over the b quark's name?
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Undergrad Is a Photon the Quanta of Both Electromagnetic Field and Wave?
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Undergrad Particle interactions with matter
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Graduate Understanding Decay Schemes to Interpreting Energy Levels and Symbols
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Undergrad Charged particle acceleration across a potential
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Graduate Renormalized Mass: What is Physically Going On?
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Graduate Understanding 1PI Diagrams and the Role in 4-Point Functions in QFT Explained
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Graduate Could the 3D percolation model explain Regge-Trajectories?
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Undergrad Is this outline of particle physics right?
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Undergrad Where are the Beta Particles in a Muon Detector?
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Undergrad Infinite range of E-M field vs finite age of particles
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High School Terrestrial Spontaneous Fission & Unstable Isotopes
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Undergrad QFT Path Integral: Confusions on Left & Right Most Terms & Vacuum State
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Graduate Are valence quarks real physical entities?
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High School LHC -- Why no success except for the Higgs?
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Undergrad Photoelectric absorption and low energy electron absorption
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Undergrad LHCb Discovers Two New Particles
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High School Is the Force Between Two Protons Weaker Than Between Two Neutrons in Nucleons?
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Undergrad Spin and helicity conservation in QED
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Undergrad Weyl Spinors & Helicity: Explained
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Undergrad Uncertainty of MonteCarlo Simulations: Weight and Error Bars
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High School LHC Collisions: Events, Energy & Finding New Particles
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Undergrad What is the definition of the transverse mode in QFT?
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Graduate Computing amplitude for divergent loop diagrams?
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Undergrad Feynman Rules for Scalar QED: LRZ Reading
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Graduate How are positrons used for fusion propulsion?
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Undergrad Creation of matter in the big bang
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Undergrad Tachyon and antiparticle difference
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Graduate What is the "real" Feynman propagator?
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Undergrad Further S matrix clarifications
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Graduate Is field theory needed in Regge-theory?
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Undergrad Can a particle transform into its counter anti-particle?
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Graduate Nuclear and Atomic energy levels
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Graduate Three dimensional representation of ##U(1)\times SU(2)##
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Undergrad Why do we assume particles are free at infinity in the S matrix theory?
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Undergrad Constant field in the Lagrangian
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High School Is the Coulomb Force Limited by the Pauli Exclusion Principle in Hydrogen Atoms?
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Undergrad A Fermion interacts with the Higgs field
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Undergrad What Determines Whether Radiation Passes Through Materials?
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Graduate Deriving the Unitary Gauge of the Higgs Mechanism
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Undergrad Helicity vs Chirality: Understanding the Difference
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Undergrad The Maxwellian Averaged Cross Section
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Undergrad Could New Resonance Insights Challenge Standard Model Predictions in LHC Data?
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Graduate Probability density of dirac spinors
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Graduate A Universal picture of hadron interactions?
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Graduate Confirming Improved Nuclear Model with Laser Spectroscopy of Cadmium Isotopes
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Undergrad Is there a relation between a soliton and a Goldstone boson?
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Undergrad Gas Density & Plasma: Is Higher Better?
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Undergrad Solving Planar Fluence: Ratio of Electrons per cm2
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