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Undergrad What are Stubbs in the CMS Tracker?
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Undergrad Radioactive decay of Carbon 14
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Undergrad Energy conservation concerns in the weak interaction
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Undergrad The Higgs field and boson - what's it's involvement in mass?
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Undergrad The strong interaction outside nucleons - what mediates it?
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High School What Are the Mysteries of Beta Plus Decay in Physics?
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Graduate Attractive strong force, isospin and hypercharges
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Undergrad Sabine Hossenfelder on strong CP, hierarchy
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Graduate Reduced matrix element for 0_ --> 0+ forbidden beta decay
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Undergrad W Boson and different generations of quarks
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High School Are there Hadrons with more than three quarks?
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High School Ionized trail in bubble chamber
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Graduate QCD as a classical field theory?
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Graduate Calculation a reduced matrix element using E-Wigner Th.
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High School Can the Half Life of Elements Change in Different States of Matter?
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High School ORNL Detects Never Before Seen Neutrino Interactions
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High School What are the equations for the quadratic and power laws in unstable systems?
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High School Magic number 3 in particle physics
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Graduate Data needed for fall off of weak interaction vrs distance
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Undergrad Particle calculation during a solar proton event
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Undergrad Charge conjugation and spatial wave function
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Undergrad Lightest Vector Meson Mass for Bottom Quarks and Antiquarks
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Graduate QED propagator in Coulomb gauge
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Graduate Confusion regarding the $\partial_{\mu}$ operator
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Undergrad Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment proton decay
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Undergrad Matter conversion during fission
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Undergrad Does LHC like collisions occur naturally
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Undergrad Fermions Bosons vertices in SM - but no SUSY
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High School How Does an IEC Fusion Reactor Work?
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Calculating Temperature Increase in Nuclear Fusion Reaction
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Undergrad Gaseous Hydrogen Fusion: Requirements & Limitations
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Undergrad Glueball with a mass of a neutron star
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Graduate Phase Space Factor: Confused About 3D to 4D Conversion
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Undergrad Gamma radiation, photon energies and wavelength question
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Undergrad Limitations of fission decay paths
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Undergrad Why is Deuterium fusion so much easier than Hydrogen fusion?
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High School The Latest Higgs Boson Mass Measurements
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Graduate Hadrons with significant branching ratios to muons
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Graduate How the g factor comes from QFT?
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Undergrad Can Conformal Transformations be Derived from Group Composition Rules?
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Undergrad How is the fission of Uranium to Europium possible?
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Undergrad Questions about Helicity & Chirality: Answers Explained
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Undergrad Cs-137 Experiment: Effects of Heavy Metal Shielding on Radiation Levels
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Undergrad Two point correlation function in Peskin book
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Undergrad Effective Mass-to-Charge Ratio of Electroweak or QED Vacuum
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Undergrad Is a Photon Emitted in the Proton-Proton Chain Reaction?
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Undergrad Classical description of fusion
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Undergrad Feynman Diagram for Double Charm Baryon
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Undergrad Can spallation be used as a controlled neutron source?
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Undergrad Understanding the Dirac Commutation Relations in QFT
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Undergrad Scintillation photon energy conversion?
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Undergrad Electron and positron annihilate
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Graduate BDT scores: Signal vs Background
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Undergrad Proton- Proton Fusion on Earth?
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Undergrad Stoke's equation -- particle size
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Undergrad Does the Contour Integral for the Klein-Gordon Propagator Matter?
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Undergrad Can a particle cause a Bose-Einstein condensate to wave?
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Undergrad Can All Baryons Annihilate with Their Corresponding Antibaryons?
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Graduate Why do we need to renormalize in QFT, really?
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Undergrad Klein-Gordon in QFT: Wave Functions & Spins
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Graduate How can gauge symmetry be broken?
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High School What is the smallest particle which can be visually observed
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Graduate Why Does Casimir's Trick Include Nonphysical Neutrino Helicities?
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Undergrad Particle accelerator question -- when the protons "crash" particles are created
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Undergrad What Do ##\phi## and ##\psi## Represent in Quantum Field Theory?
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Graduate Building a synchrotron light source
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High School Decay of Excited Atoms: Probability & Nonlinearity
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Undergrad Feynman diagram of the Vector Boson Fusion
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Undergrad Publications in Particle Physics
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High School Fusion and Alpha Particle Emission: Neutron vs Proton
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High School Is my Cockcroft-Walton accelerator design correct?
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Undergrad Creating a Neutron Beam: Challenges & Solutions
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High School How does a nuclear bomb explode?
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Graduate What Surprised Scientists About the Discovery of Neutral Currents?
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Undergrad Nuclear Spallation: Calculating Neutrons per Reaction
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Graduate UV and IR modes in ground state
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High School Can Kinetic Energy Trigger Nuclear Reactions?
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Graduate What is the strength of the strong force in N units
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Undergrad What Are the Complexities of Radioactive Isotopes in Nuclear Chemistry?
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Undergrad Peskin book on QFT question -- 2 integrals for D(x−y)
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Undergrad Why Does the Contour Matter in the Klein Gordon Propagator Integral?
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High School Why Is Binding Energy Subtracted in Nuclear Mass Calculations?
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High School Nuclear Reactions: Basics for Beginners
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Undergrad Difference between CMS and ATLAS wrt channels
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Undergrad Muons magnetic field time dilation
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Undergrad Transformation matrix from Dirac to Weyl
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Graduate Non-Dynamical Fields: Definition & Interpretations
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Can Non-Strange Particles Be Produced in Pairs?
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High School Does the plasma at the center of a star act like a solid?
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High School Relationship between Higgs particles and gravitons?
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Undergrad Can Neutrinos Be Their Own Anti-Particles?
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Undergrad Why Are Proton-Proton and Neutron-Neutron Bonds More Stable in Atomic Nuclei?
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Undergrad Higgs field couples to Planck quantum black holes?
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High School Induced Radiation: Marie Curie's Notes & Effects of Gamma/X-Rays
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Undergrad Stupid question - how does fission bomb get initial neutron?
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Undergrad Neutrons and strong interaction
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Graduate Is There a Spectral-Flow Explanation for Bosonic Self-Dual Tensor Anomalies?
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Undergrad Does the Chirality match the helicity?
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Undergrad What does it mean: "up to total derivatives"
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