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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Graduate Building a synchrotron light source
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High School Decay of Excited Atoms: Probability & Nonlinearity
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Undergrad Feynman diagram of the Vector Boson Fusion
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Undergrad Publications in Particle Physics
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Graduate Reversibility of radioactive decay process?
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Undergrad Software for calculating Feynman diagrams
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High School Fusion and Alpha Particle Emission: Neutron vs Proton
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High School Is my Cockcroft-Walton accelerator design correct?
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Undergrad Creating a Neutron Beam: Challenges & Solutions
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High School How does a nuclear bomb explode?
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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
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Graduate UV and IR modes in ground state
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High School Can Kinetic Energy Trigger Nuclear Reactions?
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Graduate What is the strength of the strong force in N units
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Undergrad What Are the Complexities of Radioactive Isotopes in Nuclear Chemistry?
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Undergrad Peskin book on QFT question -- 2 integrals for D(x−y)
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Undergrad Why Does the Contour Matter in the Klein Gordon Propagator Integral?
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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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Undergrad Muons magnetic field time dilation
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Undergrad Transformation matrix from Dirac to Weyl
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Undergrad Do Neutrons Have Different Masses in Different Isotopes?
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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?
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High School Relationship between Higgs particles and gravitons?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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High School Potential Impacts of Helium-3 Mining on the Moon and Human Health
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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 are the implications of time constraints in the standard model?
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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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High School What Causes Strong and Weak Forces in Our Universe?
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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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High School How are activity and decay constant different?
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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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Undergrad Can all the Quarks be found in the Sun?
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