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High School Uniformity of Particles Formed After Big Bang
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Undergrad Can Nuclear Decay Be Controlled?
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Undergrad In a nuclear decay, where the dM energy goes?
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Undergrad Gibbs paradox for a small numbers of particles
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Undergrad Are There Engineering Applications Of High Energy Physics?
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Graduate Gauge and Lorentz invariance for Lagrangians
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Undergrad Does an H proton weigh more than an He proton?
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High School Mini Neutron Stars: What is the Smallest Possible?
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Graduate Understanding Mu Pileup Profile in Analysis Papers
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Undergrad Is a Muon/Anti-Muon Multiplier Possible?
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Undergrad Covariant derivative of field strength tensor
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Graduate Euclidean action and Hamiltonian
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Graduate ##SU(2)## doublets, Majorana Fermions and Higgs
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High School Particle of M=0, Q=1, S=1/2, Confined?
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Do Higgs bosons exist outside Switzerland?
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Graduate Field operator eigenstates & Fock states(Hatfield's Sch rep)
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Graduate Analyses in HEP and bugs in codes
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Graduate QFT at Finite Density: Refs & Resources for Zero T
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Undergrad Can Antiparticles Collide with Each Other and Create Energy?
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Undergrad Towards a matrix element definition of PDF
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Graduate Thought experiment: How to find Chronons?
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Undergrad Island of Stability - How would we detect it?
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Graduate Signal signficancies low expected events
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The vacuum saturation approximation
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Graduate Path integral formula for vacuum to vacuum amplitude
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Undergrad Pion Detection: Finding a Film for Interference Experiment
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High School What Equations Are Relevant for a Micro Singularity in Euclidean Space Time?
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High School Can I find experimental data for the decay of Iodine-131?
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High School Split an atom into each and every nucleon
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Graduate How is iodine-131 produced in nuclear reactors?
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High School Tally of all types of energy in the nucleus
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Undergrad Can the SM accomodate an anti-Higgs boson?
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Graduate Entanglement and density matrix in QFTs
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Graduate Software for symbolic calculations in high energy physics
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Graduate Accelerating particle photon emission mechanics?
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Graduate Deducing counter-terms for canonically quantised GR
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Graduate Is Positron-Catalyzed Fusion Possible?
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Undergrad How Do On-shell and Off-shell Solutions Relate in Feynman Diagrams?
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Graduate What are the available methods to separate particles
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Undergrad Symmetry factor via Wick's theorem
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High School Free Proton verses Nucleus Proton rest mass
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Undergrad Is the decay of a muon always a 1 to n process?
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Undergrad Determining the type of interaction
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High School Matter-antimatter annihilation and inflation
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High School How Does Cadmium Absorb Neutrons?
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Undergrad Is There Really Only One Electron Traveling Through Time?
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Graduate What are the different decay processes shown in this Feynman diagram?
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Graduate Doppler Broadening in Gen 4 Nuclear Power
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Graduate Possible decay process for a cubic scalar self-interaction
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Undergrad Higgs Boson vs Graviton: What's the Difference?
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Graduate Nuclear Stability Calculations
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Undergrad Electron-Positron production by photon
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Undergrad Bare/renormalised parameters and predictions
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Undergrad Any theories muon and tau are just electrons
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Graduate Why lower limits on proton decay lifetimes depend on channel
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Undergrad Is Beta Decay Happening Inside My Glow-in-the-Dark Key Chain Made of Plexiglass?
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Graduate Understanding the Use of Trace in QFT Lagrangian for Chiral Symmetry in QCD
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Undergrad Suppression of semileptonic lambda decays
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Graduate What is Eikonalization in High Energy Hadronic Interaction Models?
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Undergrad Do neutrinos ever stop oscillating?
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High School Why was the name Higgs given to the boson?
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High School Black Hole Explosions: Hawking's 1974 Letter to Nature
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High School Safety and legality of carbon-11
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Undergrad Top quark heavier than the Higgs?
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High School Why target is putting rotated on DDX experiment?
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Undergrad Cabibbo angle for coupling of quark to antiquark?
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Graduate Fetter & Walecka's derivation of second-quantised kinetic term....
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Undergrad Can black holes split photons into elementary particles?
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Undergrad What does it mean when they say half life of a neutron
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Undergrad Does the mass of a neutron vary?
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Undergrad Dimensions of the pion decay constant
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Undergrad Is mass of top quark based solely on the Higgs field?
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Graduate Green functions and n-point correlation functions
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High School The most fundamental "particle"
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Graduate Why so big of a difference in cross section by different sources?
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Graduate Four Bosons vertex related to gauge symmetry
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Graduate Equivalence equation between cross section & half life?
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Undergrad Reaction Rate: Calculations & Limitations
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Graduate Why are photons described by real field?
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Graduate Feynman's partons v Gell-Mann's quarks
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Undergrad New LHC Results 2015: Interesting Diphoton Excess?
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High School Can a "Cat paradox" exist inside a nucleus?
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Undergrad How Do Silicon Radiation Detectors Work in Detecting Beta and Gamma Radiations?
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Graduate Isospin symmetry as an ##SU(2)## symmetry
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Undergrad Calculating Cross Section for ZZ* to Electrons/Muons: Issues & Solutions
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Graduate Why does the 2gnnlo prediction in small diphoton transverse momentum diverge?
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Graduate Photopeaking a Scintillator Detector: What Is It?
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Undergrad Evidence of Light-by-light scattering by ATLAS
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Why is technetium the only unstable element in its group?
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Undergrad Data Collection Begins: Monitoring the Diphoton Excess
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Graduate Vacuum pair creations on the light-cone
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What amount of energy is needed to make a field of plasma?
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Undergrad Understanding Weak Isospin in SU(2) Gauge Theory
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Undergrad I don't understand this Feynman Diagram
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Graduate Plastic Scintillator: Benefits in Beta Decay Experiments
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High School Where Does the Charge Come From in Electron-Positron Pair Production?
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Undergrad What triggers a radioactive nucleus to decay spontaneously?
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Undergrad Photoproduction of pions off protons
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Undergrad Lie Algebra in Particle Physics simplified
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Undergrad One loop corrections to Compton scattering
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