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High School In Fermi V-A theory, where does the Weak Interaction occur
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Undergrad Neutrino Production by Sun: Heep's Intensity & Branching Ratios
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Undergrad Is nuclear decay probability always constant?
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Undergrad Alpha Spectroscopy: Why does Peak Resolution Change?
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Undergrad Can Flexible Bonds Provide More Effective Neutron Radiation Shielding?
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Graduate What does "flat MC samples" mean?
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Undergrad Question regarding the charge conjugation operator
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Undergrad OCD radiophobe spouse suspects radiation burn
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Undergrad Why does a Mass Defect Exist if |PE| Increases?
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Undergrad Lorentz Invariance of the Lagrangian
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Undergrad Reaction Q value and threshold energy
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Undergrad Fusion half-life of diprotium molecule
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Graduate How does one find the Feynman diagrams?
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Undergrad Is the top quark stable in the absence of the Higgs field?
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Graduate Missing transverse momentum azimuthial angle
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Undergrad Understanding Scintillation Detectors for Gamma Ray Simulation
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Undergrad Count Rate of a Detector in Scintillator
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High School Account for Coulomb repulsion in nuclear fission energy?
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Undergrad Combinatorics of a phi4 interaction
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Undergrad Questions about plasma physics
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Undergrad Does a particle and its anti-particle always annihilate?
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Graduate Supplementary material for standard model
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Undergrad Why is there no equation for the strong force?
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Undergrad What is the point of a spacer in neutron activation?
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Undergrad What is happening with Na-22 at 1274 keV?
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Undergrad Neutrinos interact with photon in "level tree"?
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Undergrad D meson decay and invariant mass
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Undergrad Interpreting Copper & Argon Emission Spectral Lines with Plasma Spectroscopy
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Undergrad Technicality with Noether's theorem
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Undergrad Equivalent Klein-Gordon Lagrangians and equations of motion
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Undergrad What neutron energy regime is dominant with neutron capture?
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Undergrad Why are there still counts far from 180º angular separation?
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High School Fusion Reactor Status: Tri Alpha, Lockheed & More
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Undergrad Why Are There No Down/Anti-Down Mesons?
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High School Is α-Decay the Same as Nuclear Fission? Understanding the Difference
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Undergrad Converting measured activity between isotopes
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Undergrad Best shape for photon tracking software
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High School Can Electromagnetic Fields Interact with the Planck Scale?
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Undergrad Why are free-field Lagrangians quadratic in fields?
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Graduate Dimensional Regularization of Feynman Integrals
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Undergrad Why can't we detect virtual photons?
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Undergrad Higher order terms in perturbation theory (QFT)
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Graduate Help with the statistics of Upper Limits?
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Undergrad Theoretical Models for Sizes of Fundamental Particles
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Undergrad Are elementary particles subject to inertia?
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High School Can the LHC Create Atom-Sized Black Holes?
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High School Yukawa interaction vs gauge interaction
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Undergrad Is there a limit to the possible masses of particles in the universe?
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High School Possible outcomes of reactions
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Undergrad New Way of Particle Accelerating?
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High School Beta+ Decay: Where Does Positron & Neutrino Go?
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Undergrad What Is the Role of Gauge Theory in Particle Physics?
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Undergrad Launching a particle at the highest point inside a sphere
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Graduate Effective field theories and UV completion
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Undergrad What does it mean for a particle to vibrate?
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Undergrad Do Fermi and Gamow-Teller transitions only refer to isospin
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Graduate CP Properties of the SM Higgs boson
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Undergrad Ward identity for off shell photon?
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Undergrad Time of cooling to equilibrium in space plasma gas
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Undergrad Neutrino Oscillations and Mass
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Undergrad What Are Tetraquarks and Why Are They Important?
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Undergrad Energy released when 238U is divided into two 119Pd.
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Undergrad Chirality/Helicity difference?
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Undergrad Why CERN Energy Level Seems Low?
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Graduate Is beta decay a weak charge-current processes?
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Undergrad What is mass according to the standard model?
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Undergrad Charge conjugation properties of the gluon
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Undergrad Why are gluons considered to be elementary particles?
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High School Can radiation in space be captured and used in an Ion drive?
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Graduate Heavy Quark-Antiquark Annihilations
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Undergrad Energy and states of a particle in a box.
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High School Do neutron stars have a minimum volume?
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Undergrad LHCb observes 5 new particles (excited hadrons)
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High School How to pronounce a nuclear reaction written in AZE notation?
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Undergrad Does beta decay change spin orientation?
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High School Nuclear Fission & Fusion: Explained for Newbies
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Undergrad Dark Matter Decoupling from Plasma
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Undergrad Difference of resonant and non-resonant neutrino oscillation
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Graduate Any thinking in applying evolutionary algorithms to fusion?
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Graduate Relative sign in diagrams for ##Z##-boson exchange for ##WW## scattering
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High School How are initial radioactive isotope quantities assumed?
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Undergrad Is There a Reliable Link Between Gamma Radiation and Childhood Leukemia?
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Relative Minus Sign for u d -> u d Process?
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High School Measuring the energy of particles
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Undergrad When is a right handed neutrino a heavy neutral lepton(HNL)?
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High School Conservations in nuclear reactions
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Graduate Can the quantum Zeno effect be applied to the Higgs field
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Undergrad Why are Beryllium-7 neutrinos monoenergetic?
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Undergrad Positron/Proton Scattering Weak Charged Current
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Undergrad Right Handed Neutrinos/Heavy Neutral Leptons
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Graduate What happens to an electron's energy after Bremsstrahlung radiation?
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High School Questions about the highest-energy photons detected
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Graduate Using Fastjet in Pythia to plot distribution of particles
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Graduate Understanding Fierz Identity Transformations
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Graduate How could we produce a secondary beam of long neutral kaon
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Undergrad Why Does Unstable Particle Decay Follow an Exponential Curve?
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Undergrad Problem understanding crosssection
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Undergrad Are there right handed neutrinos?
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Graduate ΛQCDΛQCD from the beta function of QCD coupling constant
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Graduate Key Problems in Hadronic Interactions for Students
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