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Graduate Conformal Window: Understanding the Basics
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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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High School Can Antimatter-Matter Be Used as Rocket Fuel?
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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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High School Understanding Rates of Decay in Simple Terms
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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 Force That Binds Atoms: H2, Electromagnetic Force?
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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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Undergrad A question about a Feynman Diagram
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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 In PET scanners, why is a cyclotron used to make positrons?
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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 Why Can't a Lower Energy Photon Remain After Pair Production?
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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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Graduate 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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High School Containing a plasma with a oscillating cusp?
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High School Rutherford's Gold Foil Alpha Particle Interactions
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Undergrad Magnetic moment of a massless charged Fermion?
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Graduate R value in electron positron annihilation
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Undergrad Calculation Of the energy Of beta decay in tritium
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Graduate Feeling uncomfortable about Wick-rotations
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High School What Impacts Could Arise When Particle Mass Is Less Than Vacuum Energy Density?
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High School Is there any macroscopic example for the "mass excess"?
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Graduate Pair production without nucleus
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Undergrad Why Do We Need Multiple Higgs Bosons?
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Undergrad Is the strong nuclear force stronger than the weak force?
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Graduate Measurements of the Self-Interaction of the Higgs
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High School Electroweak asymptotic freedom
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Undergrad Two Loop Beta Function for Strong Coupling in QCD
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Undergrad Why do nuclear mass tables usually start with ....?
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Undergrad How can I access event data for LHCb calorimeters?
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Graduate How to calculate the energy of Gamma rays in fusion
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High School Question about the Nuclear Strong Force
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High School Explaining Existence: Can We Convert Energy to Matter?
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Graduate Symmetries in particle physics
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High School Explaination of beta + decay in layman language
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Undergrad End Point Energy and Q value in beta decay
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Undergrad Why must the mediator of the strong force be heavy?
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Undergrad Origin of mass converted to energy during nuclear fusion
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High School How does vibration affect the Higgs field interaction?
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Graduate Feynman integral with three propagators
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Graduate Covariant derivative in Standard Model
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Undergrad Heavier hydrogen-like bound states?
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Graduate LSZ, perturbation and renormalization
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Graduate Mechanism of α decay - truth about structure of nuclei
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Undergrad Understanding Kaon Behavior: Decays and Predictions by Gell-Mann and Pais
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Undergrad How does the strange and anti-up quark produce a W-boson in K-minus decay?
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High School Can Gluons Emit Photons?
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Undergrad How does one find interaction radius for Coulomb barrier?
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Undergrad Confused about Feynman diagrams
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High School Is nuclear matter a solid or liquid?
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Undergrad Is the Melting Quarks Experiment a Scam?
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Graduate What is a Fiducial Cross Section?
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High School Incurring hysteresis between protons in nuclei only....
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High School What Are the Origins of IR and UV Terminology in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Electron's Roundness measurements at JILA
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Undergrad Calculating conditions necessary for nuclear fusion
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Undergrad Nuclear statistical equilibrium
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Undergrad Penning Trap questions -- capacity, manufacturers, leakiness....
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Graduate Reference on Sudakov form factors
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Graduate How Do I Express Mass and e in Natural Units?
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Graduate Weird problem with a Lagrangian
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Graduate Download full data from National Nuclear Data Center
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Graduate All experimental data for Super heavy nuclei
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Graduate Problem with Feynman rules in QCD -- help understanding please
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Graduate Gauge anomalies (and cancellations)
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Undergrad Is Consuming Wild Boar in Sweden Risky Due to High Radioactivity Levels?
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Undergrad On the decay of the neutral Sigma particle
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Undergrad Why is binding energy called binding energy?
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Graduate Proton anti-proton pair and CP eigenstate
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High School Electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking
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Undergrad What order should we take when calculating QFT amplitudes?
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High School Do temperature and gravity affect particle or nuclear decay?
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Graduate What is the origin of Cerium 133 and Dysprosium 151?
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High School Discovering the Elusive Positron g-Factor: A Comparison with CODATA's Best Value
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Graduate Any good idea how non-abelian gauge symmetries emerge?
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Undergrad Why is quark charge exactly 1/3 or 2/3 the lepton charge?
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Undergrad Possible Third Mattauch Violation: Beta Decay in Cm-247?
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Graduate Wilsonian RG and Effective Field Theories
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Graduate Do the equations of motion simply tell us which degrees of freedom apply?
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