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Graduate What happens if photon propagator goes on shell?
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High School In the beginning, how did elementary particles form?.........
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Undergrad Bare QFT theory with cutoff and multi-particle state....
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Undergrad Am I understanding the Geiger-Nuttall law correctly
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Graduate Confusion with finite temperature and lattice formulation
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Graduate Relation between the track of a particle and its energy loss
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Undergrad ZnS:Ag Detects 10 keV Protons in High Vacuum
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High School Identification of sub atomic particles?
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High School How many gluons on average are there in a proton at once?
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Undergrad Values for the spin of a nucleon
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Graduate How Can I Create a Small Pinhole Collimator for High Energy Particles?
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Undergrad Why are higher magic numbers not accurately predicted?
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Undergrad What causes an elementary particle to "decay"?
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High School What is the collaborative process behind CERN's particle result modeling?
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Graduate Charged particles mass before symmetry breaking
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Graduate Pp and pBARp scattering amplitudes
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Graduate Quark Parton Model: Explaining Inelastic Scattering
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Undergrad Computational particle physics
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Undergrad Time period in which an interaction with a π-meson happens?
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Undergrad Distribution of nucleons in the nuclei
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Undergrad Specifically, why is the neutron heavier than the proton?
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Undergrad Difference between parallel and antiparallel spins?
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Undergrad Conservation of Lepton and Baryon numbers
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Undergrad How do we know what a neutron is made of?
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Undergrad Bases for SU(3) Adjoint representation
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Undergrad Understanding Branching Fraction: Ra-226 Example
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Graduate The Optical Theorem for Feynman Diagrams
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Undergrad Invariant mass plots for resonance 'particles'
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Undergrad How a particle's spin is decided?
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Undergrad Weak interaction - is it a force?
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Undergrad Uranium isotopes with m in superscript
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High School Understanding Particle Motion in Deep Intergalactic Space
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Graduate Why is gluon's representation 8 in ##SU(3)_c## and not 1?
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Undergrad Total or kinetic energy in Bethe Bloch stopping power?
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High School E- p+ collision product energies
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Undergrad Activity of daugther isotope in secular equilibrium
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Undergrad Are resonances formed in the scattering of a baryon and a meson?
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Undergrad Sterile neutrino and the early universe?
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Undergrad Radioactive decays, different modes share
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Graduate Magnitude of resulting decay rates due to Anti-Zeno effects
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Undergrad De Broglie relation using four momentum in particle physics
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Undergrad Strong force as exchange of mesons, or of quark and antiquark
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Undergrad Distance between two nucleons
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Graduate Possible explanation for muon g-2 anomaly: Gravity?
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Undergrad Do elementary particles experience gravity?
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Undergrad Does strong force increase or decrease with aligned spins?
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Undergrad Pauli principle and coupling term in Weizsäcker formula
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Undergrad Measuring characteristic time of strong and weak interaction
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Graduate Regge Theory vs Lattice QCD: Understanding Difficulties
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Graduate Why does sd replace sγ5d ee in the amplitude of meson decay?
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Undergrad Gravitational Waves vs Gravitons
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Graduate Beta Decay Rates Changing by Ionization?
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Graduate Quantum Anti-Zeno Effect and Decay Rates
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Undergrad Any Advice Analyzing Root Data
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Undergrad Is Quark Matter Truly Non-Strange?
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Undergrad Can we produce helium 3 from proton-deuterium fusion
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High School What happens to Fermions during Beta decay radiation?
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How to treat quark color pairs mathematically
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A question about wave/particle duality
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Undergrad Calculating Double Beta Decay Rates: Is It as Simple as Multiplying Two Values?
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Understanding Chi-Squared Plots & CP Violation Ranges
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Undergrad Are dark matter quarks displaced by visible matter?
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Undergrad Minimum requisite to generalize Proca action
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Undergrad Majorana neutrinos, sphaleron reactions, baryon asymmetry
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Undergrad Why do neutrinos oscillate if they are massless?
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High School Can Massless Particles Create Nanotubes That Capture Dark Matter?
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Graduate Conformal symmetry, qed and qcd
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Graduate Mass of Higgs, W and Z bosons going to zero at high energies
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Graduate How is the Neutrino Flux Measured in Accelerator Neutrino Experiments?
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Graduate Problem with neutrino oscillations
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Undergrad "Thermal" neutrino generation?
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Undergrad Casimir's trick / Evaluating trace
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High School Double slit and wave particle duality
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High School Why Does Carbon-14 Become Unstable?
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Undergrad Is Proton Sphericity Similar to Electron Sphericity?
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Undergrad ##A_\mu^a=0## in global gauge symmetries ?
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Undergrad How Does the Higgs Field Relate to Our Understanding of Inertia?
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Undergrad Electron/Proton Electric Charge Equality Expected?
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Undergrad Need Help Co-60 Shielding Mcnp Activity Input
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Graduate Pressure in the proton, from gravitational form factors?
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Undergrad Does Conservation Hold True for W Boson Spin Changes during Beta Decay?
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Can all gases be ionized to make a plasma?
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Graduate What is the value of the pion-nucleon coupling constant?
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Graduate Is the Higgs Field Potential Still Symmetric Post-Electroweak Symmetry Breaking?
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Undergrad GM Counter Not Useful for Measuring Gas Absorbed Energy
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Undergrad What can elastic e-p scattering tell us about the proton?
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Undergrad Emission of neutrinos and antineutrinos
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Undergrad Mean value of the nuclear tensor operator
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Graduate Renormalisation: what are the physical observables?
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High School Meson particles emitted from neutrons and protons
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Undergrad Do traditional particles occupy space
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Undergrad How does plasma act outside of a containment field?
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Undergrad Super strong magnetic field's effect on radioactivity
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Undergrad Do we make atoms of Oganneson etc or are they nuclei?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Page 14 of Peskin Schroeder without Getting Stuck?
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Undergrad Applicability of Furry's theorem
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Graduate Spinor product in Peskin-Schroeder problem 5.3
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High School Distinguishing between interactions (decays and collisions)
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High School Why is this interaction forbidden?
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Graduate Can indistinguishable particles obey Boltzmann statistics
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