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Why particle acceleration collisions don't cause explosions?
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Partition function and vacuum energy (basic stuff)
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Plasma Physics Experimentation Platform
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Amplitude of a process + interference term, how what?
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Are all massless particles "born" at light speed?
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Specialization of Kaon Quarks: A Deeper Understanding
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Radioactive particles and x rays
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An elementary equation manipulation in CFT
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Projection operators and Weyl spinors
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How Is the Anticommutator Derived in SU(3) Algebra?
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Is weak isospin conserved by all interactions?
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How many partons can you crash at once?
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How can an eL become an eR by interacting with the Higgs?
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Why do quarks have fractional charges?
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Difference between betatrons and cyclotrons
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Plasma in a Vacuum Reacting to Magnetic Field
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Why did we need a 8.3 T magnetic field in the LHC beam pipe?
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How could this,Sigma0 decay into Lambda and gamma, happens?
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Quantum Field Theory: Project Topic Ideas
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High School When did particles gain mass in the early universe?
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Gravitons Energy: Range & Dependence on Scientists
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Are internal forces necessary for particles to form a system?
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On the direction of particles in a tokomak
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Yukawa interaction and chirality.
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Do Particle Collisions at the LHC Always Produce the Same Elementary Particles?
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Why does the LHC need to be more powerful?
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Does Uranium-235 Always Fission in to Kr-89 and Ba-144?
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What Causes Beta Decay and the Role of the Weak Nuclear Force?
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Why is impact parameter not directly measurable?
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Superpositions and complex structures
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Elementary particles and randomness
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Can nuclei be used in place of atoms for stimulated emission in lasers?
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Spontaneous Fission: Isotope Decay?
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Making Matter Out of Extra Particles
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Need clarification about asymmetry term in Bethe and Weizsäcker formula
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Questions from Peskin and Schroeder
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Lorentz transforming a momentum eigenstate
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Can anybody confirm the following Feynman slash identity?
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Undergrad Understanding Anti-Positron Chirality: The Confusion Explained
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Cuts of a Feynman diagram and the massless limit
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Neutrino mass state = flavour state, but how come?
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Geant4 Beginner -- looking for advice
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Canonical Quantization: Explaining the Covariance Paradox
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Can gauge symmetry breaking reveal hidden interactions at low temperatures?
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Is the Higgs Field an Exception to Energy Being Merely a Property?
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Plasma Cooling: Liquid or Reformed Element?
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Lorentz Transformation on Left & Right Chiral Spinors
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Do We Observe Gluons Experimentally?
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What is Plasma Flow? Explaining & Understanding
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Scalar interactions amd chirality
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Feynman diagram of annihilation-pair production question
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Seesaw mech, CP violation, leptogenesis, lept/bary asymmetry
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Understanding Meson Mixed States & Why They Don't Use Imaginary Phase
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Cherenkov radiation from neutral composite particles
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Energy of particles in three phases of matter
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How fast do neutrinos travel if they have mass?
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Neutral particle oscillations / quantum number conservation
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Are Neutrino Flavors Conserved in Interactions?
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Gluons Massless? Explaining Short-Range Strong Force
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How did quarks group together at the start of the universe?
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Pi 0 Decay: Chances of e+ e- Gamma vs e+ e-
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Matter/antimatter annihilation and conservation of mass
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What Determines the Distance for Matter-Antimatter Annihilation?
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What is this old bottle of 'Uranium' found at my workplace?
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Why is c quark heavier than s while u is lighter than d?
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ID Electrons Above Eta 2.0 in ATLAS
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Beta Particle Energy: Why E_max > Q? Energy Conservation Explained
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Why Does Helium-3 Fission into H-3 and H Upon Neutron Absorption?
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Argument against quarks being composite particles?
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Where Are the Missing Quarks in Particle Physics?
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Nuclear Dimensions: Why Protons Remain Inside the Nuclear Dimension
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Why Radioactivity is caused by weak nuclear force?
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Hermitian Hamiltonian for KG equation
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Insights Neutrino masses and speed - Comments
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Particle momenta and cross section
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Why Is the Photon One-Point Function Zero in QED?
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Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Problem 6.7
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Thrust imparted from a photon?
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Can the Graviton be faster than light?
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What causes Cerenkov radiation?
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Understanding Mass Defect: Energy Calculation in Fusion and Fission
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How Does Antimatter React with Matter and What Influences Particle Stability?
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Why Are Neutron-Neutron Interactions Essential for Nuclear Stability?
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Trouble using the Bethe Formula
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Zero dimensional point particles?
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The difference between spatial and intrinsic parity
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How a particle knows about the existence of another particle
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Standard Model decompositions of larger group representations?
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Omega Baryon Decay: Why Create Unnecessary Particles?
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Pair instability supernova pressure and temperature question
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How do baryons transform under chiral transformations?
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Can symmetries in GUTs explain the occurrence of FCNCs in particle interactions?
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About bare quarks being observed
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Understanding Electron Spin: The Mystery Behind a Fundamental Property
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Why Does Strange Quark Decay Involve an Electron Instead of a Muon?
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Functional time-dependent perturbation theory
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How are neutral pi mesons formed and what is their composition?
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Qualitative explanation of scale dependence
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Running Coupling for Weak Interaction
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Orbit decay of particles w/ synchrotron radiation?
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