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Graduate Breaking of a local symmetry is impossible, so what about global symmetry....
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Undergrad Particle energy and the Lagrangian -- help understanding it please
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High School Why uranium dioxide is used in nuclear reactors?
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High School Tritium, beta decay, spatial parity
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Undergrad What´s the cosmic ray's energy dependence?
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Graduate Is Negative Mass Related to Antimatter in Physics?
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Undergrad Shift of momenta cures IR divergence?
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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?
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Graduate Neutrino flux at event horizon
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Graduate H-BOMB ''castle bravo'' -- Why was the yield so high?
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Graduate How do we know the spins of elementary particles?
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High School Direct detection of Planck mass WIMPs?
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Undergrad Best way to get an overview of research happening at CERN
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Undergrad Detecting WIMPs with superconductors?
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High School Tidal effect in the balance of Coulomb and nuclear forces?
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High School Simple doubt in nuclear fission
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Undergrad How are anti-protons created? Where do they come from?
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High School The Problem with Point Particles
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Undergrad How big was the "particle zoo" prior to quark discovery
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Undergrad Understanding Neutrino Oscillation and Mixing | Explained for Beginners
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Graduate Highest loop order of experimental relevance?
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High School What causes mass defect in the nucleus?
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Undergrad Analytically continuing 2,3,4pt integrals
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Graduate Mass Eigenstates: Definite Mass States Explained
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High School Antimatter Creation: Michio Kaku's High School Experiment
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Undergrad Probability of creation of virtual particles
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Undergrad Beyond LHC, future particle colliders and lasers
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Undergrad Baryon number nonconservation in the early universe
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High School Risk of tritium (sight) from 1970-1990.
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Graduate How many generations and fermions are there in the Standard Model Group?
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High School What Role Does the Higgs Boson Play in the Universe's Inflation?
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Undergrad Radiation from air burst weapons
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Graduate Characteristics of QGP at colliders and in the early universe
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High School Black holes cause neutron fusion in neutron stars
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High School Unpacking the Physics of Nucleus Formation & Energy Release
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High School Questions regarding stellarators
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High School Neutrino Blast Dangers Exposed: Alien: Covenant & Beyond
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High School How many equations is the standard model composed of
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Undergrad Missing energy for new physics
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High School Energy being Converted to Mass
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Graduate Thermal Neutrinos: Detecting Ancient Particles in the Universe?
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Undergrad Do additional Higgs fields also impart mass?
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Graduate Momentum transfer perpendicular to velocity of proton?
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Undergrad Pion+/- decay - what *Exactly* is happening?
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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?
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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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High School Energy of Up & Down Quarks in Joules: What Are They?
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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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High School Is a 2 Tesla magnetic field strong enough for a 5cm cyclotron design?
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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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Graduate 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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High School How do Neutrons and U235 Nuclei get out of the fuel rod
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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 Is there no stable isotope of Tungsten?
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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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