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High School Electroweak spontaneous symmetry breaking

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Undergrad What order should we take when calculating QFT amplitudes?

  • davidge
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High School Do temperature and gravity affect particle or nuclear decay?

  • nitsuj
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Graduate What is the origin of Cerium 133 and Dysprosium 151?

  • Shaimaa Hassan
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High School Discovering the Elusive Positron g-Factor: A Comparison with CODATA's Best Value

  • quiet
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Graduate Any good idea how non-abelian gauge symmetries emerge?

  • jakob1111
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Undergrad Why is quark charge exactly 1/3 or 2/3 the lepton charge?

  • harrylentil
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Undergrad Possible Third Mattauch Violation: Beta Decay in Cm-247?

  • snorkack
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Graduate Wilsonian RG and Effective Field Theories

  • Scott1137
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Graduate Do the equations of motion simply tell us which degrees of freedom apply?

  • jakob1111
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Graduate Breaking of a local symmetry is impossible, so what about global symmetry....

  • jakob1111
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Undergrad Particle energy and the Lagrangian -- help understanding it please

  • Andrea Vironda
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High School Why uranium dioxide is used in nuclear reactors?

  • Karagoz
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High School Tritium, beta decay, spatial parity

  • nitsuj
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Undergrad What´s the cosmic ray's energy dependence?

  • morenopo2012
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Graduate Is Negative Mass Related to Antimatter in Physics?

  • The Count
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Undergrad Shift of momenta cures IR divergence?

  • CAF123
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Undergrad Photonuclear reaction & Conservation of momentum

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High School How many photos of the Higgs were taken before 7.4.12?

  • gamow99
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Graduate Neutrino flux at event horizon

  • corbymite
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Graduate H-BOMB ''castle bravo'' -- Why was the yield so high?

  • asaf154
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Graduate How do we know the spins of elementary particles?

  • Shen712
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High School Direct detection of Planck mass WIMPs?

  • jcap
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Undergrad Best way to get an overview of research happening at CERN

  • Ananthan9470
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Undergrad Detecting WIMPs with superconductors?

  • jcap
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High School Tidal effect in the balance of Coulomb and nuclear forces?

  • Eric Walker
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High School Simple doubt in nuclear fission

  • Vibhor
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Undergrad How are anti-protons created? Where do they come from?

  • Mr. Fizzix
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High School The Problem with Point Particles

  • PhysicsExplorer
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Undergrad How big was the "particle zoo" prior to quark discovery

  • the_emi_guy
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Undergrad Understanding Neutrino Oscillation and Mixing | Explained for Beginners

  • aveline de grandpre
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Graduate Highest loop order of experimental relevance?

  • Urs Schreiber
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High School What causes mass defect in the nucleus?

  • Karagoz
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Undergrad Analytically continuing 2,3,4pt integrals

  • CAF123
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Graduate Mass Eigenstates: Definite Mass States Explained

  • aveline de grandpre
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High School Antimatter Creation: Michio Kaku's High School Experiment

  • ISamson
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Undergrad Probability of creation of virtual particles

  • BernieM
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Undergrad Beyond LHC, future particle colliders and lasers

  • kodama
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Undergrad Baryon number nonconservation in the early universe

  • stevendaryl
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High School Risk of tritium (sight) from 1970-1990.

  • Juan1975
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Graduate How many generations and fermions are there in the Standard Model Group?

  • shiraz
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High School What Role Does the Higgs Boson Play in the Universe's Inflation?

  • ISamson
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Undergrad Radiation from air burst weapons

  • nmsurobert
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Graduate Characteristics of QGP at colliders and in the early universe

  • tom.stoer
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High School Black holes cause neutron fusion in neutron stars

  • JoeH
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High School Unpacking the Physics of Nucleus Formation & Energy Release

  • Shakattack12
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High School Questions regarding stellarators

  • Ortala
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High School Neutrino Blast Dangers Exposed: Alien: Covenant & Beyond

  • stoomart
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High School How many equations is the standard model composed of

  • gamow99
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Undergrad Missing energy for new physics

  • Silviu
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High School Energy being Converted to Mass

  • Theudius
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Graduate Thermal Neutrinos: Detecting Ancient Particles in the Universe?

  • Cato
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Undergrad Do additional Higgs fields also impart mass?

  • kodama
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Graduate Momentum transfer perpendicular to velocity of proton?

  • rjseen
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Undergrad Pion+/- decay - what *Exactly* is happening?

  • Asgrrr
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High School Antimatter and matter canceling out

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Graduate Does an increase in gain cause peaks to shift right?

  • Pri
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Undergrad What are Stubbs in the CMS Tracker?

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Radioactive decay of Carbon 14

  • Electroguru
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Undergrad Energy conservation concerns in the weak interaction

  • Asgrrr
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Undergrad The Higgs field and boson - what's it's involvement in mass?

  • Asgrrr
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Undergrad The strong interaction outside nucleons - what mediates it?

  • Asgrrr
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High School What Are the Mysteries of Beta Plus Decay in Physics?

  • abotiz
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High School Energy of Up & Down Quarks in Joules: What Are They?

  • mpolo
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Graduate Attractive strong force, isospin and hypercharges

  • Maximilien Kitutu
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Undergrad Sabine Hossenfelder on strong CP, hierarchy

  • kodama
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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

  • Richard McCarthy
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High School Are there Hadrons with more than three quarks?

  • KBon
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High School Ionized trail in bubble chamber

  • the_emi_guy
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Graduate QCD as a classical field theory?

  • Sleuth
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Graduate Calculation a reduced matrix element using E-Wigner Th.

  • squareroot
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High School Can the Half Life of Elements Change in Different States of Matter?

  • girts
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High School ORNL Detects Never Before Seen Neutrino Interactions

  • Spinnor
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High School What are the equations for the quadratic and power laws in unstable systems?

  • Trollfaz
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High School Magic number 3 in particle physics

  • BasY
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Graduate Data needed for fall off of weak interaction vrs distance

  • dhl2017
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Undergrad Particle calculation during a solar proton event

  • yoyopizza
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Undergrad Charge conjugation and spatial wave function

  • Josh1079
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Undergrad Lightest Vector Meson Mass for Bottom Quarks and Antiquarks

  • Richard McCarthy
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Graduate QED propagator in Coulomb gauge

  • lalo_u
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Graduate Confusion regarding the $\partial_{\mu}$ operator

  • saadhusayn
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High School Is a 2 Tesla magnetic field strong enough for a 5cm cyclotron design?

  • Mentz114
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Undergrad Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment proton decay

  • kodama
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Undergrad Matter conversion during fission

  • helmetheid
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Undergrad Does LHC like collisions occur naturally

  • Trollfaz
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Undergrad Fermions Bosons vertices in SM - but no SUSY

  • Lapidus
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High School How Does an IEC Fusion Reactor Work?

  • kubaanglin
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Graduate Calculating Temperature Increase in Nuclear Fusion Reaction

  • Dalaran
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Undergrad Gaseous Hydrogen Fusion: Requirements & Limitations

  • Aidan Davis
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Undergrad Glueball with a mass of a neutron star

  • kodama
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High School How do Neutrons and U235 Nuclei get out of the fuel rod

  • Pete123
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Graduate Phase Space Factor: Confused About 3D to 4D Conversion

  • Josh1079
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Undergrad Gamma radiation, photon energies and wavelength question

  • girts
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Undergrad Is there no stable isotope of Tungsten?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Limitations of fission decay paths

  • NotASmurf
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Undergrad Why is Deuterium fusion so much easier than Hydrogen fusion?

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School The Latest Higgs Boson Mass Measurements

  • ohwilleke
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Graduate Hadrons with significant branching ratios to muons

  • Eric Culbertson
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Graduate How the g factor comes from QFT?

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