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Undergrad Two Questions about the Color Force
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High School Nuclear Explosion Legs - What are They?
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Graduate Experiment design FTL particle though magnetic field
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Graduate Determination of Extraordinary Waves By Plasma
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Undergrad Where are the four muons in this picture
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Graduate Proton Decay: The Mystery of Ergodicity
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High School The Potential of Neutronium: Creating a Man-Made Neutron Star on Earth
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High School Experimental data of bremsstrahlung
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Undergrad Instantaneous Lumi and Integrated Lumi
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Undergrad Are Light Quark Pole Masses Below 1 GeV Meaningful or Non-Physical?
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Undergrad QCD scale and massless limit of u & d quarks
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Undergrad What Makes Electronuclear Reactions Unique in GEANT4 Simulations?
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High School Nuclear bombs & their lingering radioactive effects
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Graduate What is the Maximum Achievable Tritium Breeding Rate for a Fusion Engine?
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Graduate Calculating the ionization rate in the Interstellar medium?
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Graduate Hungarian Physics Lab Uncovers Possible 5th Force of Nature
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory vs Effective Field Theory
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Undergrad Neutron or Proton Emission: What Determines a Nucleus' Preference?
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Undergrad Could the primeval antimatter "be among us"?
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Undergrad Video that show how a linear accelerator was built in 1967
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High School Protective clothes against radiation
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Graduate Russian claim about process for elements transmutation
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Graduate How reliable are MC simulations when it comes to jets?
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Undergrad How are protons, photons and quarks related electrically?
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Graduate Can Liquid Oxygen Be Used for Proton Breeding in Space via Neutron Activation?
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Graduate What is the photon direction in Z-pinch
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Undergrad RENO: 5 MeV neutrino excess ("9σ")
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Graduate Shielding calculation with MCNP5
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Undergrad How Do Voltage and Time Influence Lichtenberg Figures in Acrylic?
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High School Is nuclear fusion possible on earth?
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High School Flavour changing neutrinos and relevance to big bang
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Graduate Anisotropic pinch force in high energy electron beam
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Graduate Are neutrinos created by pair production
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Graduate Prescaled Trigger: What Does It Mean?
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Undergrad S=1 and I=1: How Can L be Anything Other than 0?
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High School What Happens to an Electron's Energy in a Decelerating Electric Field?
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Undergrad Reconsidering Matter/Anti-Matter Annihilation
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High School Is CP Symmetry Violation the Key to Explaining Matter-Antimatter Imbalance?
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Undergrad Fermilab announces new tetraquark state
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Graduate Optimizing Pseudoexperiment Sample Size for Accurate Results
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Undergrad The spin-flavor wavefunction of Sigma+
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High School Is this how nuclear fission occurs with neutron bombardment?
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Undergrad How to estimate this cross section
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Undergrad Why is Technetium (Element 43) radioactive?
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Undergrad How to know the cross section in this Figure
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High School Carbon-14 to Nitrogen-14 Decay: Proton Gain & No Electron Loss
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Undergrad Find Lambda Baryon Decays Cross Section Ratio
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Undergrad Understanding and Using the Term 'Bias' in Measurements: Explained by Experts
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Undergrad Transition matrix element and Isospin
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Graduate What is the significance of a slow turn-on curve in trigger efficiency plots?
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Graduate What is the science behind DC DC plasma transformers?
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Undergrad Obtaining the decuplet of baryon states from one state
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Undergrad Conservation of strangeness and eigenstates
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High School Difference b/w a wave and a particle?
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Undergrad LHC searchs for charged Higgs scalars
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Undergrad Quarks and isospin ladder operators
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Undergrad Are there particles associated with unified superforces?
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Undergrad Relative Mean lifetime of decays
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Graduate Calculate neutron dose rate from a reactor to an object
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Undergrad Interpreting CMS and ATLAS results
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Graduate Ionization Rate for Cosmic Rays, given the CR spectrum
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Undergrad Mesons and baryons written in terms of quarks
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Undergrad Cross-Section from Lab Frame to C-O-M Frame
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Undergrad Processes for Higgs Production from t-tbar
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Graduate (Event generation) What information do you get....
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Undergrad Why do the fundamental forces have different ranges?
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Undergrad How fast do fundamental forces propagate?
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Graduate How you go about finding correlations?
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Graduate Why doesn't pdg baryon list show quark compositions?
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Graduate Graviton represented as a gluon pair
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Graduate Strong force bremsstrahlung equivalent
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Undergrad Right and left handed electrons
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Undergrad Classical Field Theory for a system of particles
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High School Few questions about radioactivity/radiation
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Undergrad Which symmetery breaks in SSB?
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Graduate Good slides or summaries for Field theory, Lie algebra, etc.
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High School Current Flux from Alpha and Beta Radiation
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Undergrad Where to find phosphorescent screens?
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High School Is Neutrino Spin Truly Equal to Electron Spin?
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Undergrad Why Do Gluons Decay into u-anti-u Pairs Instead of Z0 Bosons?
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Undergrad Is this Linear Accelerator Design Valid?
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High School Can someone walk me through nuclear fission?
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Undergrad Radioactivity measurements -- finding a fit for lab measurements
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Graduate Massive three particle phase space
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Graduate Trying several fits with only 2 functions?
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Graduate How to determine if 2 particles come from the same process
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Graduate Unitarity and perturbativity constrains on couplings in QFT
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Graduate Possibility of a stable mesonic nucleus
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Graduate Can Lithium6 be created from Deutium + Helium4
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Graduate Unclear Paper: Can m_{\tilde{\chi}_2}, m_{H_1} Exist? Fig 3 & 7 Analysis
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High School How is the nucleus held together?
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Undergrad Higgs particle vs. Higgs field
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Graduate Minimum Current for Fusion/Plasma
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High School Does having more neutrons in an isotope make it more or les stable?
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Graduate How to calculate the threshold energy of (n,n') reactions?
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Graduate Is the PMNS matrix parameterization unique?
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Graduate Gravity and massless particles
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Undergrad Photons, Higgs -- Mass question
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Graduate Madam Wu's Experiment: Exploring Electron Behaviour in a Magnetic Field
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Graduate What Does Zee Mean by the Equation in QFT Nut, III.6, p. 194?
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