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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?

  • stever
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Undergrad Deep inelastic scattering and the Q^2 large limit

  • CAF123
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High School Particles touching each other inside a Black Hole's core....

  • Tommyboyblitz
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Undergrad What if dark matter is unrelated to WIMPs?

  • Carlos L. Janer
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High School Nuclear Decay with time (half-life,initial activity/ nuclei)

  • Treeps
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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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Graduate What Do Direct Measurements of Flavour Neutrino Masses Reveal?

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Undergrad Degeneracy of energy levels greater than no. of particles?

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Graduate Learn SU Groups in QCD: Chiral Symmetry, 8 Goldstone Bosons & More

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High School Why do radioactive materials decay in half-lifes?

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Graduate How is radiation distributed in this experimental setup

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Graduate CP properties of field strength tensor

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Graduate How can i build a homemade particle accelerator?

  • Armando Valle
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Graduate Antilepton excess of leptogenesis and sphalerons

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Undergrad The Higgs Field and Fermion Generations: Stability and Mass

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Undergrad Imagining a Higgsless Universe

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Undergrad What is the approximate impedance of an RF plasma "antenna"?

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Graduate Leptogenesis and see-saw before EWSB

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High School Higgs Field Radio: Revolutionizing Global Communication

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Undergrad Experimental check of photon mass and Coulomb's law

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Undergrad How to Calculate the Self Energy Amplitude of a Sunset Diagram?

  • Safinaz
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Undergrad Splitting Angular Momentum into Spin and Orbital Parts

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Undergrad Confirming Nuclei Deformation: Theory & Experimental Considerations

  • Dilema
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High School Evidence for CP violation in the baryon sector

  • Chronos
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Undergrad Can we visually detect subparticles using visible light?

  • kent davidge
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Graduate Momentum transfer and energy scale

  • Josh1079
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High School No traces in cloud chamber (experimental physics)

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Undergrad Chernobyl Dose Model & Estimates

  • Lily_94
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High School Gravitational Filed and Particles

  • kent davidge
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Graduate How to Multiply SU(4)XSU(2) Matrices to Form a 8x8 Matrix?

  • munirah
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High School If Higgs has mass of 125GeV why did the LHC need 3.5TeV?

  • SheriffPeabody
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Graduate PDFs expressed as matrix elements of bi-local operators

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Undergrad Do glueballs of spin-2 mediate forces?

  • kodama
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High School What is binding energy and how does it hold nuclei together?

  • victorhugo
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High School On the topic of neutrinos' masses

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High School Necessity of D's in a Cyclotron

  • jackferry
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Undergrad How to calculate self energy Feynman diagram like that

  • Safinaz
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High School The path of particles in the L.H.C. pics

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High School Linear energy transfer for electrons

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Graduate "Quantum chromodynamics is a zero-parameter theory"

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Graduate Propagator for traceless gauge field

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Mono-jet searches for simplified models

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Undergrad Weak force - only free neutrons decay?

  • arlesterc
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High School Understanding Planck Mass and Gravity Formula for the Hierarchy Problem

  • cube137
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Graduate Running coupling of the Higgs potential

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Undergrad Is Unruh Radiation from Quarks in Nucleons a Violation of Energy Conservation?

  • Davephaelon
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Graduate Prerequisite for understanding QCD

  • Renzo Tramaglino
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Undergrad ITER high neutron flux research?

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Undergrad Degrees of freedom of elementary particles

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Undergrad How do Particle Exchange Forces Create Attractive Forces?

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Graduate Chirality of the electromagnetic force on atomic matter

  • Incnis Mrsi
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Undergrad Is the SM of particles physics and Cosmology SM

  • Arthur Lopes
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Undergrad Quark and anti quark neutral particles question

  • Renu420
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Undergrad Local Gauge Invariance Explained: Physics & Math Insight

  • Silviu
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Undergrad What happens to the mass of a muon when it decays

  • Quandry
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High School World made up of 2nd & 3rd Generation particles

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Undergrad Understanding Neutrino Detectors & All-Neutrino Detection

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High School What does half-integer spin mean?

  • Irfan Nafi
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Graduate Understanding the Seesaw Formula Conventions in Neutrino Mass Derivations

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Graduate Transforming lepton basis to diagonlise charged lepton mass

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High School Proton decay probability (Bayesian or frequentist?)

  • cube137
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Graduate Measurement of the Higgs Self Interaction

  • QuantumSkippy
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Graduate Imaginary parts of amplitues (Schwartz QFT text)

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Status of cp - even neutral heavy Higgs after ICHEP 2016

  • Safinaz
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High School High energy protons and electrons to gamma radiation

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Undergrad Origin of mass and Noethers theorem

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High School Since gluons are massless, shouldn't glueballs also be massl

  • kodama
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Undergrad Clarification of Higgs field, Higgs boson and gravitons

  • kodama
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Undergrad Plasma Condensation: Can Gas Be Turned Back Into Liquid/Solid?

  • Physicist50
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Graduate When should rapidity or pseudorapidity be used for particle measurements?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate How the heck is this made? (Tabletop electron accelerator demo)

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Undergrad Pressures required for nuclear fusion

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Graduate Custodial Symmetry in the Standard Model

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Undergrad Why would interacting K0L produce K+ more often than K-?

  • Anchovy
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Graduate Problem with fields and operators in holographic duality

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Help with a Reference Level of Radon in Water

  • AndresPB
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Undergrad Why is the D-D nuclear fusion reaction unlikely despite having a higher Q value?

  • Incand
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Graduate Do the weak isospins of the w1 and w2 combine?

  • QuantumForumUser
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High School Difference in binding energy is equal to the energy released

  • Potatoishere
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Undergrad What happens when an anti-particle collides with our body?

  • kent davidge
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High School Weak force symmetry broken above 250 GeV?

  • cube137
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Undergrad How Does the T2K Experiment Detect Neutrino Oscillations?

  • verve825
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Undergrad Antiparticles and Einstein's energy-momentum relation

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Undergrad X-ray spectra- bremsstrahlung and characteristic x-rays

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High School Understanding Nuclear Bombs: The Physics Behind Their Devastation

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Undergrad Just how long is the ATLAS detector?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate TRT Electron Radiation: Transition Between Refractive Indices

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Calculating Energy of Deuterium-Tritium Reaction

  • Dr. Octavious
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High School How Does the Coulomb Barrier Affect Alpha Decay?

  • Peter G
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High School Does fusion occur because you exceeded the strong force?

  • Irfan Nafi
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High School CERN: Why No Supersymmetry or Mini Black Holes?

  • NewToThis
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Undergrad Alpha decay and magnetic fields

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Undergrad Nuclear Vibrations: Krane pg 141 | 0^+ State

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Graduate Gluon spin and quark confinement

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High School What causes the physicality of matter?

  • Aaron1947
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