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Graduate Question about data & Monte Carlo statistical uncertainties
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Top quark Polarization understanding
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Undergrad Excited hadrons v. fundamental particles
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High School Can Leptons decay into mesons?
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Undergrad Low quantum numbers, high energy, and distance scales.
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Undergrad Thermal field theory of an isolated electroweak plasma
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Undergrad What is the charge for the weak interaction?
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High School How to calculate the nuclear repulsive force?
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Undergrad How does the Higgs scalar potential evolve with temperature?
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High School Zero J when Z and N are even (nuclear physics)
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High School Where does the increase in mass come from in fission?
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High School The relation between mass,higgs boson, and boson field?
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Undergrad Particle physics -- The collision of two Beta particles....
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High School Muons, Positrons & IR Energy: A Muon Q&A
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Graduate Transformation of a scalar field
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Undergrad Matter predominates b/c anti-matter fell into black holes?
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Undergrad Interaction time between charged particles
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Undergrad Conductors without real world particles
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Undergrad X-Ray Dose Estimate for Lower Back: Understanding Radiation Exposure
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Undergrad X-ray tube to gamma tube question
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Undergrad Kilovoltage Peak role for an X ray tube
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Undergrad Understanding Spin and Helicity Conservation in Relativistic Interactions
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High School How energy is released during nuclear fission?
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Graduate Walecka mean field theory, Help to find its M*
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Graduate I need a spherically symmetric spin-dependent NN potential
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High School How Can Point Particles Have Cross Sections?
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Undergrad Quark mixing and energy conservation
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Graduate Question about a cross section from PDG
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Undergrad Does plasma react to eletromotive force
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High School Can we entangle particles to make wormholes our own size?
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High School Is it possible to predict which trick will work for fusing heavy elements?
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Undergrad Calculating E+e- -> μ+ μ- Cross Section
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Graduate Invariance of Dirac Lagrangian
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High School Supersymmetry Purpose: Explanation & Purpose
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Undergrad QCD: Asymptotic not-exactly freedom?
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High School LHC Constrains on Compactified M-theory SUSY particles
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Undergrad U-235 thermal neutron capture gamma ray
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High School Thermal Dependence of the Higgs Mechanism
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Graduate Transformation of solutions of the Dirac equation
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Undergrad Particle Focusing using EM fields
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High School The shell theorem and particles
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Undergrad Radiation modeling software (radiation blocking qualities)
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Graduate Angular momentum operator derived from Lorentz invariance
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Graduate Why is a glueball not massless, if it's a Goldstone boson?
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Graduate Transformation of Dirac spinors
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Undergrad Forces between point particles: Always towards or away?
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Undergrad Mass Attenuation coefficient greater than 1
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Undergrad Stopping Power and Range units for charged particles
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High School Are Radioisotopes and Radionuclides the Same Thing?
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Undergrad High energy laser-electron inerraction same as in TWT amplifier?
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Undergrad What Are the Best Reading Recommendations for Understanding Spinors in Physics?
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Undergrad De-Broglie Wavelength of a captured electron?
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Undergrad Direct and indirect CP violation
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Undergrad Linear attenuation coefficient
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Undergrad Why does the long-lived kaon only rarely decay to two pions?
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Undergrad Pion decaying to two neutrons demonstrates odd parity
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Undergrad CP transformation, charge conjugation and antimatter
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Undergrad Preamplifiers in radiation measurement systems
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Undergrad What particles have fixed weak isospin and T3?
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High School What does the Higgs particle consist of?
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Undergrad Energy efficiency of nuclear and fossil fuel
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Undergrad Why do particle physicists use Gaussian error estimates?
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High School Do Matter and Antimatter React to Each Other in the Same Way?
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Graduate Info about cosmic rays affecting microchips
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High School Damage to CERN LHC: Breakdowns and Updates (April 2017)
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High School If you are exposed to radiation, do you emit it?
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Undergrad Why do systematic uncertainties disappear using ratios?
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Undergrad Equal time contractions in Wick contractions
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Undergrad Why Does π+ Decay to Muon and Muonic Neutrino?
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High School What is source of fundamental particle charge?
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Graduate Meson Compostions: Difference Between π0 and η
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Graduate Conformal Window: Understanding the Basics
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High School What is the equation for proton emission after muon capture in heavy nuclei?
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High School Mechanism for Energy Released via the Strong Force in Fusion
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Graduate How can the LRS model for leptons incorporate the Standard Model group?
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Undergrad What are the differences between photon and neutrino oscillations?
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Undergrad Parity of theta term of Lagrangian
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High School Medical Physics and The Particles Used
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Undergrad Questions about the Higgs Field
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Undergrad P and X completely describing a system of particles
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Graduate The Compton Effect: Scattering Low Energy Photons by Electrons
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Undergrad Why is Liquid Neon Not Typically Used in Bubble Chamber Detectors?
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Undergrad Why is the Z Boson represented triangular in this diagram?
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Undergrad Antiproton flux and cross-sections in antideuterium production
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High School Nuclear Fusion energy questions
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High School Quark/Gluon Ensemble In Hadron
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Graduate What does gauge theory explain?
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High School What particle(s) pass through Earth?
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Undergrad What are the challenges faced by LHC in the initial data-taking of 2017?
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High School Neutrino/anti-neutrino interactions on video
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Graduate What journal to choose? My article contains a big table
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Graduate Why Does Fluorine-19 Have J=1/2 Instead of J=5/2?
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Undergrad How Many Different Quarks Are There in Each Generation?
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Undergrad Do Black Holes Emit Different Particles at Varying Intensities?
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High School Is neutrino spin-parity 1/2+ or 1/2-?
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Graduate My T-shirt and the Standard Model
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High School What are antiparticles and what do they do?
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High School CPT asymmetry question, in regards to recent experiment@CERN
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Where I can find the article: Higgs-Thomson-Fibonacci generation
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Undergrad Are new nucleons formed in heavy-ion collisions?
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