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Graduate Signal signficancies low expected events
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Graduate 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 Antimatter opposite parity to its matter partner?
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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 The manufacture of ionization smoke detectors
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Undergrad Is the decay of a muon always a 1 to n process?
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Undergrad Where does the angular momentum go in Feynman's disk paradox?
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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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High School Can a single nuclear bomb power the world for 2 trillion years?
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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 Curve Fitting Data: Gamma Spectroscopy Lab Results
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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 What Happens in a Uniform Magnetic Field: The Stern-Gerlach Experiment
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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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Undergrad 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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High School What is the recommended method to reduce gamma ray exposure?
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Graduate 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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High School How Dangerous is Plutonium in Real Life?
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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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Undergrad Acceleration of a Particle Because of a Wave
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Undergrad Singlet State: Symmetry vs Antisymmetry
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High School Paradox in the nuclear activity
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Undergrad Screening in QED: Electron, Positron, and Gauss's Law
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High School Particle Uniformity: Are All Particles Alike?
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Undergrad Deep inelastic scattering and the Q^2 large limit
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High School Particles touching each other inside a Black Hole's core....
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Undergrad What if dark matter is unrelated to WIMPs?
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High School Nuclear Decay with time (half-life,initial activity/ nuclei)
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High School Particle Physics: Pions Produced via Strong & Weak Interaction
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High School Matrices of su(3) and sphere symmetry
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Graduate Why 15 million K is sufficient for fusion in solar core?
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High School Is Nucleus Unstable? Radioactivity & Stability
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High School Turning Elements into other Elements
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