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Undergrad Why is chirality considered difficult when it's defined simply by γ5?

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Undergrad The Maxwellian Averaged Cross Section

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Undergrad LHC data deviations in tail bins of resonance search

  • Malamala
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Graduate Probability density of dirac spinors

  • Josh1079
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Graduate A Universal picture of hadron interactions?

  • Anashim
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Graduate Confirming Improved Nuclear Model with Laser Spectroscopy of Cadmium Isotopes

  • Gowtam Chandra Pal
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Undergrad Is there a relation between a soliton and a Goldstone boson?

  • phoenix95
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Undergrad When does a fermionic gas become a plasma at higher density?

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Undergrad Solving Planar Fluence: Ratio of Electrons per cm2

  • AgusCF
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Undergrad Length Contraction of Protons in the LHC

  • Neil Marshall
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Graduate Calculating Particle Lifetimes to Unstable Particle Decay

  • HeavyWater
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Undergrad Higgs Boson decay to two Quarks Detected

  • Tom.G
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Undergrad Closing the Gap: The Evolution of CMS at CERN

  • YoungPhysicist
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Undergrad How can a single photon mediate the electromagnetic force between particles?

  • Nevada City Bob
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Undergrad Particles more fundamental than fields

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High School Calculating products of nuclear fusion reactions

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Undergrad Can potential energy have an imaginary part in real cases?

  • pintu935
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High School Remaining Fraction of Particle Beam After CERN Use

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad Gamma absorption at increasing energy levels

  • snorkack
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Graduate Use of the Optical Theorem and Regge trajectories

  • Anashim
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High School Why is the Higgs boson considered a boson?

  • Aidyan
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Undergrad If we teleport 1mm^3 of a neutron star outside it what hapens?

  • jms4
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Graduate When can the Ward Identity be used in quantum field theory?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad SuperKEKB/Belle II start up: First collisions

  • mfb
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Graduate What happens if photon propagator goes on shell?

  • Chenkb
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High School How did elementary particles form at the beginning of the universe?

  • rogermunns
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Undergrad Why does a cutoff make the QFT vacuum a multiparticle state?

  • asimov42
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Undergrad Am I understanding the Geiger-Nuttall law correctly

  • says
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Graduate Confusion with finite temperature and lattice formulation

  • diegzumillo
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Graduate Relation between the track of a particle and its energy loss

  • Mr rabbit
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Undergrad ZnS:Ag Detects 10 keV Protons in High Vacuum

  • VACUUMIST
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High School Identification of sub atomic particles?

  • johngalt47
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High School How many gluons on average are there in a proton at once?

  • ohwilleke
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Undergrad Values for the spin of a nucleon

  • says
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Graduate How Can I Create a Small Pinhole Collimator for High Energy Particles?

  • 1Keenan
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Undergrad Why are higher magic numbers not accurately predicted?

  • says
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Undergrad What causes an elementary particle to "decay"?

  • mitrasoumya
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High School What is the collaborative process behind CERN's particle result modeling?

  • scienceboy1
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Graduate Charged particles mass before symmetry breaking

  • Geanta
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Graduate Pp and pBARp scattering amplitudes

  • Anashim
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Graduate How can elastic scatterings in the quark parton model sum to inelastic scattering?

  • Josh1079
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Undergrad Computational particle physics

  • mehdi6
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Undergrad Time period in which an interaction with a π-meson happens?

  • says
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Undergrad Distribution of nucleons in the nuclei

  • says
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Undergrad Specifically, why is the neutron heavier than the proton?

  • says
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Undergrad Difference between parallel and antiparallel spins?

  • says
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Undergrad Conservation of Lepton and Baryon numbers

  • gerald V
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Undergrad How do we know what a neutron is made of?

  • momoichi8382
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Undergrad Bases for SU(3) Adjoint representation

  • nigelscott
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Undergrad Understanding Branching Fraction: Ra-226 Example

  • leoneul
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Graduate The Optical Theorem for Feynman Diagrams

  • phylz
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Undergrad Invariant mass plots for resonance 'particles'

  • IAN 25
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Undergrad How a particle's spin is decided?

  • phoenix95
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High School What are energy and charge in subatomic particles?

  • ScienceQueries
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Insights Interview with Niels Tuning, LHCb Run Coordinator - Comments

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Weak interaction - is it a force?

  • Gene Naden
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Undergrad Uranium isotopes with m in superscript

  • nomadreid
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High School Understanding Particle Motion in Deep Intergalactic Space

  • bland
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Graduate Why is gluon's representation 8 in ##SU(3)_c## and not 1?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Total or kinetic energy in Bethe Bloch stopping power?

  • crick
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High School E- p+ collision product energies

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Undergrad Activity of daugther isotope in secular equilibrium

  • crick
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Undergrad Are resonances formed in the scattering of a baryon and a meson?

  • crick
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Undergrad Sterile neutrino and the early universe?

  • kimmm
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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

  • Aakash Sunkari
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Undergrad De Broglie relation using four momentum in particle physics

  • crick
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Undergrad Strong force as exchange of mesons, or of quark and antiquark

  • crick
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Undergrad Distance between two nucleons

  • crick
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Graduate Possible explanation for muon g-2 anomaly: Gravity?

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Undergrad Do elementary particles experience gravity?

  • RobertSpencer
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Undergrad Does strong force increase or decrease with aligned spins?

  • crick
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Undergrad Pauli principle and coupling term in Weizsäcker formula

  • crick
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Undergrad Measuring characteristic time of strong and weak interaction

  • crick
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Graduate Regge Theory vs Lattice QCD: Understanding Difficulties

  • Anashim
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Graduate Why does sd replace sγ5d ee in the amplitude of meson decay?

  • plasmon
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Undergrad Could a Smoke Detector Serve as a Sail for Spacecraft Propulsion?

  • synch
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Undergrad Gravitational Waves vs Gravitons

  • Islam Hassan
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Graduate Beta Decay Rates Changing by Ionization?

  • Aakash Sunkari
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Graduate Quantum Anti-Zeno Effect and Decay Rates

  • Aakash Sunkari
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Undergrad Any Advice Analyzing Root Data

  • David Browning
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Undergrad Is Quark Matter Truly Non-Strange?

  • jim mcnamara
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Undergrad Can we produce helium 3 from proton-deuterium fusion

  • qas
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High School What happens to Fermions during Beta decay radiation?

  • SirTerry
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Graduate How to treat quark color pairs mathematically

  • winstonboy
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Graduate When do subatomic particles switch between wave and particle form?

  • Kenneth Boon Faker
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Undergrad Calculating Double Beta Decay Rates: Is It as Simple as Multiplying Two Values?

  • Aakash Sunkari
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Graduate How to read CP violation ranges from chi-squared plots

  • kimmm
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Undergrad Are dark matter quarks displaced by visible matter?

  • Luke W
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Undergrad Minimum requisite to generalize Proca action

  • JuanC97
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Undergrad Majorana neutrinos, sphaleron reactions, baryon asymmetry

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Undergrad Why do neutrinos oscillate if they are massless?

  • Kiley
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High School Can Massless Particles Create Nanotubes That Capture Dark Matter?

  • Ivan manes
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Graduate Conformal symmetry, qed and qcd

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Mass of Higgs, W and Z bosons going to zero at high energies

  • Renormalised
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Graduate How is the Neutrino Flux Measured in Accelerator Neutrino Experiments?

  • kimmm
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Graduate Problem with neutrino oscillations

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad "Thermal" neutrino generation?

  • nikkkom
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High School I am trying to understand energy, and its relation to (matte

  • GeorgeW
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Undergrad Casimir's trick / Evaluating trace

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