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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

  • Silviu
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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?

  • Aidan Davis
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Undergrad Classical description of fusion

  • Aidan Davis
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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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Undergrad Understanding the Dirac Commutation Relations in QFT

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Graduate Simulating a Proportional Counter with Soil Sample in SRIM

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Undergrad Scintillation photon energy conversion?

  • girts
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Undergrad Electron and positron annihilate

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Graduate BDT scores: Signal vs Background

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Undergrad Proton- Proton Fusion on Earth?

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Undergrad Stoke's equation -- particle size

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Undergrad Does the Contour Integral for the Klein-Gordon Propagator Matter?

  • Silviu
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High School Where do neutrons in the sun come from?

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Undergrad Can a particle cause a Bose-Einstein condensate to wave?

  • Fred Thompson
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Undergrad Can All Baryons Annihilate with Their Corresponding Antibaryons?

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Graduate Why do we need to renormalize in QFT, really?

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Undergrad Klein-Gordon in QFT: Wave Functions & Spins

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Graduate How can gauge symmetry be broken?

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High School What is the smallest particle which can be visually observed

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Graduate Why Does Casimir's Trick Include Nonphysical Neutrino Helicities?

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Undergrad Particle accelerator question -- when the protons "crash" particles are created

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Undergrad Why do protons and nuclei of light elements not ionize solid objects like metal?

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Undergrad What Do ##\phi## and ##\psi## Represent in Quantum Field Theory?

  • Silviu
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Graduate Building a synchrotron light source

  • Varma21
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High School Decay of Excited Atoms: Probability & Nonlinearity

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Undergrad Feynman diagram of the Vector Boson Fusion

  • Leonitd
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Undergrad Publications in Particle Physics

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Graduate Reversibility of radioactive decay process?

  • Alfredo Tifi
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Undergrad Software for calculating Feynman diagrams

  • Carlos L. Janer
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High School Fusion and Alpha Particle Emission: Neutron vs Proton

  • Aidan Davis
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High School Is my Cockcroft-Walton accelerator design correct?

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Undergrad Creating a Neutron Beam: Challenges & Solutions

  • Aidan Davis
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High School How does a nuclear bomb explode?

  • NewBie911
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Graduate What Surprised Scientists About the Discovery of Neutral Currents?

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Undergrad Nuclear Spallation: Calculating Neutrons per Reaction

  • Aidan Davis
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Graduate UV and IR modes in ground state

  • ShayanJ
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High School Can Kinetic Energy Trigger Nuclear Reactions?

  • Aidan Davis
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Graduate What is the strength of the strong force in N units

  • Dilema
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Undergrad What Are the Complexities of Radioactive Isotopes in Nuclear Chemistry?

  • girts
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Undergrad Peskin book on QFT question -- 2 integrals for D(x−y)

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Why Does the Contour Matter in the Klein Gordon Propagator Integral?

  • Silviu
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High School Why Is Binding Energy Subtracted in Nuclear Mass Calculations?

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High School Nuclear Reactions: Basics for Beginners

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Undergrad Difference between CMS and ATLAS wrt channels

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Insights LHC Part 4: Searching for New Particles and Decays - Comments

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Undergrad Muons magnetic field time dilation

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Undergrad Transformation matrix from Dirac to Weyl

  • Akineton
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Undergrad Do Neutrons Have Different Masses in Different Isotopes?

  • Chenghui Yuan
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Graduate Non-Dynamical Fields: Definition & Interpretations

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Graduate Can Non-Strange Particles Be Produced in Pairs?

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High School Does the plasma at the center of a star act like a solid?

  • ktoz
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High School Relationship between Higgs particles and gravitons?

  • Sophrosyne
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Undergrad Can Neutrinos Be Their Own Anti-Particles?

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Undergrad Why Are Proton-Proton and Neutron-Neutron Bonds More Stable in Atomic Nuclei?

  • jeffbarrington
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Undergrad Higgs field couples to Planck quantum black holes?

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High School Induced Radiation: Marie Curie's Notes & Effects of Gamma/X-Rays

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Stupid question - how does fission bomb get initial neutron?

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Undergrad Neutrons and strong interaction

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Graduate Is There a Spectral-Flow Explanation for Bosonic Self-Dual Tensor Anomalies?

  • William Nelso
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Undergrad Does the Chirality match the helicity?

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Undergrad What does it mean: "up to total derivatives"

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High School In Fermi V-A theory, where does the Weak Interaction occur

  • charlesmartin14
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High School Potential Impacts of Helium-3 Mining on the Moon and Human Health

  • ImMaybeBrian
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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?

  • Trollfaz
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Undergrad Alpha Spectroscopy: Why does Peak Resolution Change?

  • says
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Undergrad Can Flexible Bonds Provide More Effective Neutron Radiation Shielding?

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Graduate What are the implications of time constraints in the standard model?

  • sunrah
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Graduate What does "flat MC samples" mean?

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Question regarding the charge conjugation operator

  • Thomas Brady
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High School What Causes Strong and Weak Forces in Our Universe?

  • John Clement Husain
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Undergrad OCD radiophobe spouse suspects radiation burn

  • Jeroen Cranendonk
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Undergrad Why does a Mass Defect Exist if |PE| Increases?

  • Candidus
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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

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Understanding Scintillation Detectors for Gamma Ray Simulation

  • Silviu
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Undergrad Count Rate of a Detector in Scintillator

  • Silviu
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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?

  • Frank Castle
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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?

  • says
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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

  • CAF123
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Undergrad Equivalent Klein-Gordon Lagrangians and equations of motion

  • Frank Castle
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