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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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High School Are Mass and Matter Distinct Entities in Particle Physics?

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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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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?

  • David Berger
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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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Insights Results shown at EPS - Comments

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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

  • Pedro de la Torre
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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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