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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-

  • Manel
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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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Graduate Where Are the Missing Quarks in Particle Physics?

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Graduate Nuclear Dimensions: Why Protons Remain Inside the Nuclear Dimension

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Graduate Why Radioactivity is caused by weak nuclear force?

  • Muhammad Sabih
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Graduate Hermitian Hamiltonian for KG equation

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Insights Neutrino masses and speed - Comments

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Graduate Particle momenta and cross section

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Undergrad Nobel Prize in Physics: Neutrinos Changing Identity, Possessing Mass

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Graduate Why Is the Photon One-Point Function Zero in QED?

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Graduate Thomson, Modern Particle Physics, Problem 6.7

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Graduate Thrust imparted from a photon?

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Graduate Can the Graviton be faster than light?

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Graduate What causes Cerenkov radiation?

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Undergrad Understanding Mass Defect: Energy Calculation in Fusion and Fission

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Graduate How Does Antimatter React with Matter and What Influences Particle Stability?

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Undergrad Why Are Neutron-Neutron Interactions Essential for Nuclear Stability?

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Graduate Trouble using the Bethe Formula

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Graduate Zero dimensional point particles?

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Graduate The difference between spatial and intrinsic parity

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Undergrad How a particle knows about the existence of another particle

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Graduate Standard Model decompositions of larger group representations?

  • Anchovy
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Graduate Omega Baryon Decay: Why Create Unnecessary Particles?

  • Garlic
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Graduate Virial expansion: Resolving these integrals

  • Korbid
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Graduate Pair instability supernova pressure and temperature question

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Graduate How do baryons transform under chiral transformations?

  • Andrea M.
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Graduate Can symmetries in GUTs explain the occurrence of FCNCs in particle interactions?

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Graduate About bare quarks being observed

  • Garlic
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Graduate Understanding Electron Spin: The Mystery Behind a Fundamental Property

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Graduate Why Does Strange Quark Decay Involve an Electron Instead of a Muon?

  • Garlic
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Undergrad Probability of an unstable atom becoming stable and not

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Graduate Functional time-dependent perturbation theory

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Graduate How are neutral pi mesons formed and what is their composition?

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Graduate Qualitative explanation of scale dependence

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Graduate Running Coupling for Weak Interaction

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Graduate Orbit decay of particles w/ synchrotron radiation?

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Graduate Why some particles have no mass even similar sized ones?

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Graduate PT of products larger than initial particle's

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Graduate How many energy a muon will lose when it pass through metal?

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Graduate Neutron production in (strong) magnetic field?

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Graduate Mass of Higgs Boson: 125 GeV: How Do Particles Create Mass?

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Graduate Neutron production inside cyclotrons?

  • Sven Andersson
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Undergrad Energy of Photons: An Exploration

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Graduate What is the Nuclear Spin of Fluorine-19 and How is it Calculated?

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Graduate What's the longest time antimatter was able to be stored?

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Graduate How Did Dirac Solve the Negative Energy Problem in Quantum Field Theory?

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Undergrad Further Reading on Mass of Photon

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Graduate LHCb results show generation non-Universality (non-SM)

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Graduate Puzzling Chiral Symmetry Breaking

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Graduate Distribution of protons in momentum space in an ion source?

  • Sven Andersson
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Undergrad W,Z,H and some fail in decoupling theorems

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Graduate Large nuclei to proton ratios reduce repulsion in a nucleus

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Graduate Understanding Atomic Forces: The Role of Strong and Electromagnetic Interactions

  • Dongmin
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Graduate Understanding Nuclear Fission Yields: U-233, U-235, Pu-239, and Pu-241

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Undergrad Would protons in LHC lose energy over time if ejected out?

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Graduate The Mystery of Proton Decay: Unveiling the Role of the Higgs Field

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Undergrad Why we use wavelength to divided into ray, wave and particle

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Graduate Can Modern Alchemy Turn Lead into Gold, and What Does the Future Hold?

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Graduate Can Quarks Move Between Nucleons or Change Arrangement Within One Nucleon?

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Graduate Scalar fields and the Higgs boson

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Graduate Cutkosky Cutting Rules: Understanding Rules & Where To Add i

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Graduate Excited States of The Deuteron

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Undergrad Can we stop protons from moving in LHC?

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Graduate Proton-proton I chain and mass defect reactants and products

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Graduate Disconnected graphs, decomposition principle

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Graduate Global Antineutrino Map: Measuring Nuclear Reactor Emissions Worldwide

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Undergrad Higgs and Nuclear Yields: amusing coincidence.

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Graduate Mesons other than quark-antiquark states?

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Graduate Containing Free Neutrons: Could it be Done?

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Graduate Particle # conservation in a spontaneously broken theory

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Undergrad What Does True Mean in Particle Simulation Data?

  • harten
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Graduate Anti-##k_T## algorithm for jets

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Gluon Wavelength in Nucleons & Barions

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Graduate Can a Blast Wave in a Pipeline Outrun HMX Detonation Velocity?

  • Neon Cracklin
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Graduate What is this notation? I haven't seen it before

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Graduate ##\tau \rightarrow e## misidentified as ##\tau_h##

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Do protons have stong nuclear interaction with other protons

  • Cash Fulton
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Graduate Spallation of Mercury: Neutron Powder Diffraction @ ORNL

  • Joe D
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Graduate What does "the Higgs Boson destroys itself" means?

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High School Simple test to determine type of radioactive decay

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Graduate Black hole expansion in the LHC?

  • Johnny Neutrons
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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between Muon and Electron Capture?

  • Garlic
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Graduate Can someone explain to me further on QCD

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Graduate ##W' \rightarrow \tau \nu## not Jacobian?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Proton Proton Annihilation: The Energy Behind Fusion

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Graduate Decay through gravitional interaction

  • Garlic
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Graduate About Abelian U(1) Higgs model

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Graduate What Happens When a Street Urchin Walks Into the Higgs Boson Analogy?

  • Sebastien
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High School Number of elementary particles in an atom

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Graduate Antiparticles of Standard Model gauge bosons

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