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Undergrad Differential number of particles in Fermi gas model

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Graduate Angular momentum of Dirac particle

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Undergrad Why to use negative hydrogen in spallation neutron source?

  • kiwaho
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Graduate Do the P&S 10.1 divergence results hold in scalar QED?

  • Higgsy
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High School Matter and antimatter annihilation quarks

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Undergrad How do protons and electrons combine to form neutrons in neutron stars?

  • StanEvans
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Undergrad Why do quarks have color charge and why must it sum to white?

  • Kyx
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High School Some abnoxious questions regarding mass, gravity and spaceti

  • tim9000
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High School Finding the Path of a Particle with Initial Velocity and Force

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Undergrad Material detection with radiation sources

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Graduate Computing the pole mass from a given MS mass?

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Graduate Why do NLO cross sections sometimes decrease relative to LO ones?

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Advice on accelerating deuterons in a tokamak like chamber

  • Sven Andersson
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Undergrad Intensity of the background neutron radiation

  • Garlic
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Undergrad Shell Model: Filling Up Nuclei

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Undergrad Detecting low intensity neutron radiation

  • Garlic
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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?

  • jnorman
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Undergrad Why is there an energy loss in helicoidal movement?

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High School Do elementary particles depend on which physical theory we use?

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Undergrad How does number density relate to probabilty density

  • thegirl
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Undergrad Do more unstable elements decay faster than more stable ones?

  • Copper
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High School How can a gluon have two color eigenvalues?

  • baxishta
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Graduate Normalization vs Reweighting a histogram

  • ChrisVer
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High School What is the shape and orientation os the Higgs field?

  • CosmicVoyager
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High School Does the Higgs boson only exist when created in LHC?

  • CosmicVoyager
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Graduate Why did CERN fail to confirm Fermilab's X(5568) tetraquark discovery?

  • Fred Wright
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Graduate Is the 750 GeV Diphoton Excess Real? Analyzing the Moriond Results

  • arivero
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Graduate Cross sections of bins and combination

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Is it Safe to Use a Plasma Globe with Electronic Equipment?

  • Gila
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High School Question on Kaons and its strangeness

  • Gajan1234
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High School Neutrino change of flavour and conservation of energy

  • Ngineer
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High School Differences between reactive, unstable, and radioactive

  • Housteen
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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

  • gtoeroe
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Graduate Why are the weak and electromagnetic forces unified but not the strong force?

  • dextercioby
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Undergrad How do neutrinos conserve angular momentum?

  • SteveDC
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Undergrad Dependence on UV cut off on some $\phi^4$ diagrams

  • CAF123
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Undergrad Ratio of abundance of sub-atomic particles in the universe?

  • tim9000
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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?

  • CAF123
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Graduate How do sea quarks arise in lattice QCD if it's non-perturbative?

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High School How would you calculate RF cavity dimensions?

  • Ryan Reed
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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?

  • Christoffer Zakrzews
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Undergrad How to understand Plutonium enrichment in the graph

  • Neutroniclad
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High School How is mass converted and released as energy?

  • Polaris417
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High School Is Higgs field present everywhere?

  • Dr. Manoj
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Undergrad Can neutrinos be produced/detected incoherently?

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High School True vacuum, false vacuum, and metastability in Hawking's Higgs scenario

  • Dr. Manoj
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Graduate Nonlocal transformations in Batalin-Vilkovisky theory

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Graduate Is Chiral Symmetry Present in Weak Interaction?

  • shereen1
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High School Why is Plutonium 210 a better alternative to Carbon 14 for dating?

  • ryanuser
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High School Can quarks replace electrons in a crystal lattice?

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High School What happens when particles collide with other particles' antiparticles?

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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 and Hamiltonian for each fundamental field

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Graduate Getting from electroweak W_1,2,3 and B to W+-, Z and photon?

  • Anchovy
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Graduate Control_Regions.htmlControl Regions: What Are They?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Interpreting Fourier transforms of particle detector spatial distributions

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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

  • CAF123
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Graduate Where to find comprehensive particle scattering tables and diagrams

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Graduate Third step in Yukawa potential integral

  • Breo
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Graduate Does nuclear isomeric transition or heavy hadron decay occur first?

  • Garlic
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Graduate Calculation of neutral Kaon Box Diagrams

  • johnpatitucci
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Graduate How clean was the "Tsar bomb"?

  • nomadreid
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Graduate Top quark mass mt at energy scales μ<mt?

  • unknown1111
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Undergrad Association between W Boson Decay and Leptons

  • TDanskin
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Graduate Giant slalom of particles in a plasma?

  • Sven Andersson
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Undergrad Does Fusion Increase Nucleus Density?

  • CrackerMcGinger
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Undergrad Deuterium-tritium fusion rate at 100 million Kelvin

  • Nivek Writer
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Graduate What causes secondary photons in He-3 detectors?

  • Neutroniclad
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Graduate Could neutrino anomalies be explained by Pandemonium effect?

  • ORF
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Graduate Neutrino masses and sterile neutrinos

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Is fusion Practical? And is it safe?

  • gjonesy
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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?

  • utesfan100
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Graduate What effects are bounding a missing mass plot? (with figure)

  • rjseen
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Graduate The Higgs Boson and General Relativity

  • arupel
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Graduate Confusion with the Gordon identity

  • Higgsy
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Graduate Basic interactions in the Standard Model

  • thegirl
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Graduate Is nuclear fusion of Jupiter possible?

  • Nivek Writer
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Graduate Why does p_μγ^μ appear in Dirac equation spinor solutions?

  • Higgsy
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Graduate What is a 'sphaleron' in basic terms?

  • Anchovy
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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

  • Orion Pax
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Undergrad How can beta decay have energy of 3-4 MeV

  • Moazin Khatri
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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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