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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

  • Silviu
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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 Can particles physically touch 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 Can pions be produced by both strong and weak interactions?

  • Kajan thana
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High School Matrices of su(3) and sphere symmetry

  • kimcj
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Graduate Why 15 million K is sufficient for fusion in solar core?

  • jarekduda
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High School Why do unstable nuclei emit alpha, beta and gamma particles?

  • Aspiring Girl
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High School Turning Elements into other Elements

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Graduate What would direct mass measurement of electron neutrinos reveal?

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

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

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

  • andyh3930
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Graduate How is radiation distributed in this experimental setup

  • MPKU
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Graduate CP properties of field strength tensor

  • d8586
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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

  • venus_in_furs
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Undergrad Why do second and third generation fermions couple more strongly to the Higgs field?

  • kodama
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Undergrad Imagining a Higgsless Universe

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

  • Voltux
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Graduate Leptogenesis and see-saw before EWSB

  • Soph_the_Oaf
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High School Higgs Field Radio: Revolutionizing Global Communication

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Experimental check of photon mass and Coulomb's law

  • Prometeus
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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

  • God Plays Dice
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Undergrad How is nuclei deformation confirmed experimentally?

  • 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)

  • diarized
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Undergrad Finding dose estimates from the Chernobyl accident

  • 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

  • CAF123
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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

  • Mikaelochi
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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

  • hsdrop
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High School Linear energy transfer for electrons

  • Biocool
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Graduate "Quantum chromodynamics is a zero-parameter theory"

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Propagator for traceless gauge field

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Why do s-channel dark matter models require loops in monojet production?

  • Luca_Mantani
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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

  • spaghetti3451
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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?

  • gildomar
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Undergrad Degrees of freedom of elementary particles

  • Lapidus
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Undergrad How do Particle Exchange Forces Create Attractive Forces?

  • Distant Meteors
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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 What is the physical meaning of local gauge invariance?

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

  • Quandry
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High School Could stable second-generation particles form molecules and atoms?

  • cube137
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Undergrad Why chlorine and deuterium in neutrino detectors, and why SNO detects all neutrino types

  • bbbl67
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High School What does half-integer spin mean?

  • Irfan Nafi
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Graduate Reconciling the two seesaw formula conventions for neutrino mass

  • venus_in_furs
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Graduate Transforming lepton basis to diagonlise charged lepton mass

  • venus_in_furs
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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

  • DarkBabylon
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Undergrad Origin of mass and Noethers theorem

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

  • kodama
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Undergrad Why don't gravitons gain mass by coupling to the Higgs field?

  • kodama
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Undergrad Can a plasma be cooled back into a liquid or solid?

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

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Building a tabletop electron accelerator demonstrator

  • Pokenath200
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Undergrad Pressures required for nuclear fusion

  • g_mogni
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Graduate Custodial Symmetry in the Standard Model

  • Luca_Mantani
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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 Finding WHO or EPA radon contamination limits for 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

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

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High School How does nuclear fission trigger a chain reaction in a bomb?

  • Metals
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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 Why hasn't the LHC found supersymmetry or mini black holes?

  • NewToThis
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Undergrad Alpha decay and magnetic fields

  • andresB
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Undergrad Why do quadrupole phonons couple to give only l=0,2,4 states?

  • Incand
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Graduate Gluon spin and quark confinement

  • joly
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