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High School Void between Plank particle and Quark.... what else?
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Undergrad Is nuclear fusion induced by gamma photons possible?
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Undergrad What Is the Maximum Value for the SM Higgs Quartic Coupling?
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Graduate KamLAND-Zen Results: Search for Majorana Neutrinos in Inverted Mass Hierarchy
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Undergrad Understanding Plasma: Definition, Theory, and Applications
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Graduate Higgs Bosons and 750 GeV Resonance: Top Force Calculation?
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Undergrad Georgi-Glashow model of W bosons/photons
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High School Is There a Rule for Antiparticle Production in Reactions?
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Undergrad Elementary processes in Feynman Diagrams
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High School What are some modern issues in the world of Nuclear physics?
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Undergrad Why is the weak force 10^-7 times the electromagnetic force?
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Undergrad S-Channel Process: a+b->c+d Diagrams
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Graduate Irreducibility of (anti)self-dual reps
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Graduate Non-negativity of the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator
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Undergrad Raising and lowering operators for a composite isospin SU(2)
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Graduate Calculating Primary Ionizations of Cosmic Muons in a Detector
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Graduate Strategies for kinematics of a four-body decay?
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Undergrad Isospin conservation - an application
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High School Calculating safe levels of radioactivity
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Undergrad Method to know if a reaction is allowed
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Undergrad Fission Chain Reaction: Is it Possible?
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High School Binding Energy per Nucleon trend for fusion vs fission
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High School H boson is 125 GeV, super symmetry, multiverse not possible?
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Undergrad Superficial degree of divergence for scalar theories
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General Particle Source in GEANT4
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Graduate Where are the Higgs particles?
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Understanding Proton Decay: College Physics Help
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Undergrad Strongest Prediction of GUTs possible with Current Tech?
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Graduate Accelerating an electron in beta decay
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Undergrad How can photons interact if they travel at the speed of ligh
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Undergrad Hadronic Calorimeter Granularity
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Undergrad How long can you be exposed to gamma radiation for
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What Makes Accelerator Physicists the Hottest Job in Physics?
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Graduate Formula for calculating neutron flux?
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Graduate Track Reco in the Inner Detector of ATLAS
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Graduate What is the meaning of chiral-odd/chiral-even functions
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Undergrad How can the e- escape by overcome the suck force in β- decay
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Undergrad Can electron beam accelerate electron capture beta decay?
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Undergrad Vacuum chamber pressure calculation in TOKAMAKS
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High School Is it legal to build a garage accelerator for hobby research
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High School CERN releases 300TB of LHC data to public
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Undergrad Uncertainty about relative atomic mass
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Undergrad Neutrino Detection: Theories & Improvements
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Undergrad K-beta line for the X-ray spectra of Molybdenum with Moseley
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Graduate Why Are There No 15 Representations for Fermions in SU(5) Grand Unification?
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Graduate Box diagram calculation (Kaon mixing)
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High School About isomeric transitions at high Z
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Undergrad Spontaneous Symmetry breaking of multiplet of scalar fields
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Graduate The reaction π0 + π+ -> π+ + γ
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Undergrad Determining Ion Speed in a Farnsworth Fusion Ion Collider
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High School So, is the polywell a promising concept for achieving aneutronic fusion?
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Undergrad How to determine the energy of photons released in decay
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Undergrad Homomorphism SL(2,C) with restricted Lorentz
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Undergrad What is the rank of the SU(2)xSU(2) algebra?
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Undergrad Is the Higgs Field a new form of an old idea?
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Undergrad Why is there a space between two particles of a dipole
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Graduate Liquid Scintillation Counter using U-238 to detect neutrons
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Graduate Breaking of ##SU(2) \times SU(2)## to ##SU(2)##
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Graduate Decay of polarized particle into two spinless
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Graduate The commutations relations for left/right handed fermions
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Graduate Reconstruction vs Identification
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Undergrad Nonexistence or Feynman diagram of a decay
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Graduate Conservation of Information: Neutron Formation and Decay
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High School How were the properties of the Higgs boson accuratly predicted?
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High School How do beta particles remove electrons?
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Undergrad Is there way to thermalize an electron to room temperature?
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Undergrad How many barns above could make nuclear reaction rate 100%?
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Undergrad How Does Inverse Kinematics Benefit Cross-Section Measurements?
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Graduate Resolutions of ATLAS Detectors
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High School Are W Bosons Truly Massive Particles or Just an Effect of Energy Equivalence?
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Graduate SU(2)_V, SU(2)_A transformations
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Undergrad SU(3) quark model and singlet states
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Graduate Isovector and Isoscalar magnetic moments
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Undergrad How to create an elementary particle?
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Undergrad Electroweak symmetry and unbroken generators
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Undergrad Does the anti-neutron decay with same timing as a neutron?
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High School Were all the particles or matter one?
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Undergrad Differential number of particles in Fermi gas model
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Graduate Angular momentum of Dirac particle
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Undergrad Why to use negative hydrogen in spallation neutron source?
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Graduate QED vs Scalar QED: Proving Divergence in P&S 10.1
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Undergrad Neutron Star Formation: Quarks, Protons, Electrons Explained
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Undergrad Understanding Quantum Chromodynamics: The Colorful World of Quarks Explained
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High School Some abnoxious questions regarding mass, gravity and spaceti
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High School Finding the Path of a Particle with Initial Velocity and Force
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Undergrad Material detection with radiation sources
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Graduate Computing the pole mass from a given MS mass?
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Graduate Why do NLO cross sections sometimes decrease relative to LO ones?
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Undergrad Advice on accelerating deuterons in a tokamak like chamber
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Undergrad Intensity of the background neutron radiation
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Undergrad Shell Model: Filling Up Nuclei
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Undergrad Detecting low intensity neutron radiation
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Undergrad Can Black Holes Have Equal Spin and Behave as Indistinguishable Fermions?
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Undergrad Is the Higgs Field Solely Responsible for Imparting Mass to Particles?
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High School What Is an elementary particle?
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Undergrad How does number density relate to probabilty density
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High School Gluon Color: Possessing 2 Eigenvalues & Relationship to Tao
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Graduate Normalization vs Reweighting a histogram
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High School What is the shape and orientation os the Higgs field?
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High School Does the Higgs boson only exist when created in LHC?
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