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Undergrad Why we called the Helium particle as alpha particle?
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Graduate Does a photon have "resting" mass?
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Undergrad How to Trace Particle Trajectories in a Cartesian Box Structure?
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Graduate Why must the Higgs' gauge symmetry be broken?
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Graduate Questions regarding "Thermal History of the Early Universe"
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Graduate Why Does Particle Decay? | Explained with Fermi
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Undergrad Phase diagram p-v and plasmatic state
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Graduate Electro Weak Unification Theory
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Graduate Background rejection / data analysis
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Graduate Self Quenching In Geiger-Muller Counter
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Undergrad Fission Reaction: How Many Neutrons Needed for Chain Reaction?
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Graduate How to calculate Feynman diagrams in phi^4
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Graduate Energy released from annihilation
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Graduate What is meant by "electromagnetic energy resolution"?
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Graduate What is the meaning of the term 'prompt muon'?
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Graduate Quark mixing factor in CKM matrix
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Undergrad Can someone please explain what plate-out is/means?
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Graduate Producing K+ from K0L via 'charge exchange'?
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Graduate What is a Synchronised cyclotron?
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Graduate Pseudoscalar current of Majorana fields
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Graduate Ryder's SU(2) Example in Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate Is the Higgs mechanism a gauge transformation or not?
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Graduate Derivation of momentum for the complex scalar field
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Undergrad How we differentiate between bosons and fermions?
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Graduate What is electron? Is it a perfect point? What does it mean?
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Graduate Fusion of He, Li, Be in Z-pinches?
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Graduate Quark axial-vector current in nucleion
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Graduate Why particle acceleration collisions don't cause explosions?
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Graduate Partition function and vacuum energy (basic stuff)
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Graduate Plasma Physics Experimentation Platform
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Graduate Amplitude of a process + interference term, how what?
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Graduate Are all massless particles "born" at light speed?
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Graduate Specialization of Kaon Quarks: A Deeper Understanding
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Undergrad Radioactive particles and x rays
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Graduate An elementary equation manipulation in CFT
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Graduate Projection operators and Weyl spinors
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Graduate How Is the Anticommutator Derived in SU(3) Algebra?
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Graduate Is weak isospin conserved by all interactions?
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Graduate How many partons can you crash at once?
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Graduate How can an eL become an eR by interacting with the Higgs?
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Graduate Why do quarks have fractional charges?
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Undergrad Difference between betatrons and cyclotrons
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Graduate Plasma in a Vacuum Reacting to Magnetic Field
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Graduate Why did we need a 8.3 T magnetic field in the LHC beam pipe?
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Graduate How could this,Sigma0 decay into Lambda and gamma, happens?
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Graduate 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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Graduate Gravitons Energy: Range & Dependence on Scientists
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Undergrad Are internal forces necessary for particles to form a system?
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Graduate On the direction of particles in a tokomak
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Graduate Yukawa interaction and chirality.
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Graduate Do Particle Collisions at the LHC Always Produce the Same Elementary Particles?
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Undergrad Why does the LHC need to be more powerful?
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Undergrad Does Uranium-235 Always Fission in to Kr-89 and Ba-144?
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Graduate What Causes Beta Decay and the Role of the Weak Nuclear Force?
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Undergrad Why is impact parameter not directly measurable?
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Graduate Superpositions and complex structures
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Graduate Elementary particles and randomness
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Graduate Can nuclei be used in place of atoms for stimulated emission in lasers?
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Graduate Spontaneous Fission: Isotope Decay?
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Graduate Making Matter Out of Extra Particles
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Graduate Need clarification about asymmetry term in Bethe and Weizsäcker formula
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Graduate Questions from Peskin and Schroeder
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Graduate Lorentz transforming a momentum eigenstate
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Graduate Can anybody confirm the following Feynman slash identity?
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Undergrad Understanding Anti-Positron Chirality: The Confusion Explained
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Graduate Cuts of a Feynman diagram and the massless limit
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Graduate Neutrino mass state = flavour state, but how come?
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Undergrad Geant4 Beginner -- looking for advice
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Graduate Canonical Quantization: Explaining the Covariance Paradox
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Graduate Can gauge symmetry breaking reveal hidden interactions at low temperatures?
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Graduate Is the Higgs Field an Exception to Energy Being Merely a Property?
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Undergrad How did Meitner calculated the amount of energy lost....
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High School Plasma Cooling: Liquid or Reformed Element?
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation on Left & Right Chiral Spinors
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Graduate Do We Observe Gluons Experimentally?
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Graduate What is Plasma Flow? Explaining & Understanding
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Graduate Scalar interactions amd chirality
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Graduate H2O, HDO, D2O equilibrium concentrations
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Graduate Feynman diagram of annihilation-pair production question
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Graduate Seesaw mech, CP violation, leptogenesis, lept/bary asymmetry
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Graduate Understanding Meson Mixed States & Why They Don't Use Imaginary Phase
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Graduate Cherenkov radiation from neutral composite particles
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Undergrad Energy of particles in three phases of matter
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Graduate How fast do neutrinos travel if they have mass?
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Undergrad Is energy convertible to matter?
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Graduate Neutral particle oscillations / quantum number conservation
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Graduate Are Neutrino Flavors Conserved in Interactions?
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Graduate Gluons Massless? Explaining Short-Range Strong Force
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Graduate How did quarks group together at the start of the universe?
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Graduate Pi 0 Decay: Chances of e+ e- Gamma vs e+ e-
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Graduate Matter/antimatter annihilation and conservation of mass
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Graduate What Determines the Distance for Matter-Antimatter Annihilation?
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Undergrad What is this old bottle of 'Uranium' found at my workplace?
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Graduate Why is c quark heavier than s while u is lighter than d?
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Graduate ID Electrons Above Eta 2.0 in ATLAS
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Graduate Beta Particle Energy: Why E_max > Q? Energy Conservation Explained
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Graduate Why Does Helium-3 Fission into H-3 and H Upon Neutron Absorption?
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Graduate Argument against quarks being composite particles?
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