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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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Undergrad Why is there an energy loss in helicoidal movement?
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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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Undergrad Do more unstable elements decay faster than more stable ones?
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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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Graduate CERN fails to confirm Fermilab tetraquark discovery-why?
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Graduate Is the 750 GeV Diphoton Excess Real? Analyzing the Moriond Results
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Graduate Cross sections of bins and combination
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Undergrad Is it Safe to Use a Plasma Globe with Electronic Equipment?
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High School Question on Kaons and its strangeness
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High School Neutrino change of flavour and conservation of energy
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High School Confusion with the terms: Reactive, Unstable and Radioactive
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Undergrad Questions About Plasma: Learn About Plasma Jet Usage
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Graduate Pp total cross section and asymtotic freedom
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Graduate Explanation of terminology: electroweak
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Undergrad How do neutrinos conserve angular momentum?
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Undergrad Dependence on UV cut off on some $\phi^4$ diagrams
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Undergrad Ratio of abundance of sub-atomic particles in the universe?
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Undergrad Is there a tie between half life and energy of decay?
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Graduate Equations of Motion for SU2 Field (Weinberg -Salam?)
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Undergrad How Do Counterterms Affect Tadpole Cancellations in Phi^4 Theory?
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Graduate Inside protons: origin of the sea quarks
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High School How would you calculate RF cavity dimensions?
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Undergrad Why do atoms undergo alpha and beta decay?
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High School New Findings at LHC: JHEP02 2016 104
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Undergrad Is 1 u Equal to 931.5 MeV or 931.5 MeV/c²?
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Undergrad How to understand Plutonium enrichment in the graph
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High School How is mass converted and released as energy?
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High School Is Higgs field present everywhere?
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Undergrad Can neutrinos be produced/detected incoherently?
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High School True/False Vacuum, Metastability & Stephen Hawking's Higgs Boson
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Graduate Nonlocal transformations in Batalin-Vilkovisky theory
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Graduate Is Chiral Symmetry Present in Weak Interaction?
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High School Why is Plutonium 210 a better alternative to Carbon 14 for dating?
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High School Quark Seeding: Info & Possibilities
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High School What happens when particles collide with their anti-particles?
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Graduate What Quantum Numbers Do SU(3) Multiplet Particles Share?
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Undergrad Actual measurement of radioactive decay
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Graduate Higgs Expectation Value with Classical vs Quantum Potential
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Graduate The definition of mass of an electron (after the renorm group)
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Graduate Possible tetraneutrons at RIKEN
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High School Envisioning particle collision.
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Graduate Lagrangian & Hamiltonian of Fields
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Graduate Getting from electroweak W_1,2,3 and B to W+-, Z and photon?
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Graduate Control_Regions.htmlControl Regions: What Are They?
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Graduate Help interpreting processed data (and their transforms)
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Graduate On shell and off shell simultaneously?
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Graduate Is Resurgence Theory and QFT the Next Quantum Mechanics Breakthrough?
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Graduate Computation of non scalar loop integrals
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Graduate Comprehensive Particle Scattering Table
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Graduate Integrating the Yukawa Potential: Understanding the 3rd Step
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Graduate Question about isomeric transition
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Graduate Calculation of neutral Kaon Box Diagrams
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Graduate How clean was the "Tsar bomb"?
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Graduate Top quark mass mt at energy scales μ<mt?
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Undergrad Association between W Boson Decay and Leptons
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Graduate Giant slalom of particles in a plasma?
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Undergrad Does Fusion Increase Nucleus Density?
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Undergrad Nuclear Fusion Rate: Calculating Reaction Speed & Energy
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Graduate What causes secondary photons in He-3 detectors?
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Graduate Could neutrino anomalies be explained by Pandemonium effect?
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Graduate Neutrino masses and sterile neutrinos
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Undergrad Is fusion Practical? And is it safe?
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Graduate Gamma and x-ray decay in different series
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Graduate At what scale is the charge of an electron -2e?
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Graduate What effects are bounding a missing mass plot? (with figure)
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Graduate The Higgs Boson and General Relativity
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Graduate Confusion with the Gordon identity
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Graduate Basic interactions in the Standard Model
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Graduate Is nuclear fusion of Jupiter possible?
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Graduate Clarification of spinor solutions in Srednicki
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Graduate What is a 'sphaleron' in basic terms?
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Undergrad Can the concept of wave-particle duality be applied to subatomic systems?
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Graduate Renormalization of Bound States in QFT
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Undergrad How can beta decay have energy of 3-4 MeV
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Graduate Does Z Boson Decay Respect Parity and Charge Conjugation?
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Graduate What is the reason for mass defect in a nuclide?
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Graduate Creating mass (particles) from light
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Graduate Why the rare kaon decay K+ -> pi+ nu nubar req. penguins?
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Graduate Can the usual inner product be defined on spinor space?
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Graduate Surprising high-energetic event at the LHC
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Graduate Strong Flavor Dynamics for tops questions
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High School How to tell if a reaction is fission or fusion?
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Graduate Measuring Magnetic Monopoles: Unique Signatures in Magnetic and Electric Fields
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Graduate Understanding the Residual Strong Force on Hadrons - Explained
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Graduate Symmetry factors of some diagrams
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High School What exactly is meant by the word "particle"
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Graduate Can a Lagrangian in QFT be Renormalizable?
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Undergrad What radiation detector can tell energy level?
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Graduate When the electric field of the ionization chamber increase...
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Graduate Connected graphs and phi^4 interacting theory
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