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Graduate Could Antimatter Propulsion Revolutionize Space Travel?

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Graduate Gauge bosons and the weak mixing angle

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Graduate Making a Particle Beam Cutter: Physics Perspective

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Graduate Why Kink can not tunnel to vacuum, and is topologically stable

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Graduate Tight-to-Loose ratio method: QCD Background

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Graduate How constant is the charge of an atom?

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Graduate Why does U235 fission to U236 18% of the time

  • Daniel Bolstad
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Graduate How do Peskin/Schroeder derive 2-component Fierz identities?

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Graduate Size of Americium in a Smoke Detector

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Graduate Do hadron particles have half-life?

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Undergrad Radiation of nuclear weapon questions

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Graduate 4 momentum is particle physics

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Graduate Self-adjointness of the real scalar field

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Undergrad Muon detecting with smarthpones -- need open source code....

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Graduate Add the Hermetian conjugate to make Lagrangian real

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Graduate What Gives Mass to the Higgs Boson and Photons?

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Graduate Found a bottle of uranium nitrate, safe to be around?

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Graduate Lead shielding against Van allen belts?

  • james gander
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Graduate Interactions between field operators & locality in QFT

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Graduate Is Higgs boson massless or does it gain mass when interacting with water?

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Graduate Where Can I Find Software for Calculating Tensor Loop Integrals?

  • Daniel Reyes
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Graduate Neutrino Anti-Particle and Flavor Mass Hierarchy

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Undergrad Is this an example of nuclear fusion?

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Graduate Replacing the shape of the track of accelerator particles

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Learn the Art of Indexology to Writing Lagrangians with Tensors

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Graduate Is Muon Catalyzed Fusion a Viable Source of Energy?

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Graduate Want a good "Group Theory" book

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Graduate Ladder operators for real scalar field

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Graduate Bound States in QFT: Learn Modern Formalism & Applications

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Undergrad What is the frequency of proton oscillation?

  • Devin
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Graduate Understanding Fermi Contact forces

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Graduate Protons and electromagnetic attraction in the LHC?

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Graduate Rest energy of 238Uranium and gamma factor

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Graduate Introduction to Young-tableaux and weight diagrams?

  • Dilatino
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High School Radioactive Decay: What Causes It?

  • steve oliver
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Graduate Why do we need local phase invariance in Gauge theories?

  • Paul Draw
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Graduate Understanding CP Violation in Two-Body Decay of K Mesons

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Graduate Do supersolids or BECs have higher fusion cross sections?

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Graduate What particles are black holes made of?

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Graduate How do Physicists know the Higgs Field imparts mass?

  • Marc Brown
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Graduate The Benefits of the Cancelled SSC in Texas

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Graduate Proton decay lifetime prediction SU(5)?

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Graduate Confused about isospin conservation in rho to pion decays

  • Dilatino
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Graduate Understanding Simple Chirality Equations with Dirac Spinors

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Graduate Is the Noether current physically observable in experiments?

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Graduate How can I construct the 4D real representation of SU(2)?

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High School Unanswered Questions About the Higgs Model and Its Role in Explaining Mass

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Graduate Confused by these proton decay diagrams

  • Anchovy
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Graduate Is a Small Space Hadron Collider More Efficient than a Large One?

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Graduate EM vs Neutrino interactions w matter

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Graduate What is the significance of the newly discovered pentaquark at LHCb?

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Graduate Demystification of the spin-sum for massive spin-1 particles

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Undergrad Are particles lost during fusion?

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Graduate Are there Quark-Antiquark Particles?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate What is the best interpretation of this collision graphic?

  • edguy99
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Graduate Anyone got Graph for attenuation coefficient gold?

  • Andrew Visioli
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Graduate Quenched & Unquenched Quark Model

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High School What determines a particle's size?

  • Ryan Reed
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Undergrad Proton Velocity After Atom Release: An Overview

  • Element115
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Graduate Energy Conservation: Beta Ray & Neutrino

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Graduate Understanding SU(5) gauge boson matrix?

  • Anchovy
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Graduate Do Mono-nuclear Molecules Exhibit Dipole Moment and Why?

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Graduate PT symmetry breaking in optical systems

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Graduate Quarks in Hadrons: Position Dependence for Pentaquark Stability

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Graduate What are all the generators of SU(5)?

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Graduate Extracting a Feynman diagram from a lagrangian?

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High School Do Protons and Neutrons Move around in the Nucleus?

  • Ryan Reed
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Graduate Detecting Antimatter: How Scientists Discovered Its Existence

  • Salvador
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Undergrad Fundamental point like particles?

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Graduate A Problem about representations of group and particles

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Graduate What Determines the Electric Charge of Fundamental Particles?

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Graduate Orthogonality of inner product of generators

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Graduate Concerns about double beta decay plus/double electron capture

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Graduate Question about the Graviton theory

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Status of lattice standard model

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Graduate What Could Be Causing the 2 TeV Bump in Symmetry Magazine?

  • edguy99
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Graduate What is interaction Lagrangian of matter and graviton fields

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Graduate Topological effects in Particle Physics

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Graduate How are the quarks in a proton or neutron held together?

  • James Halliday
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Graduate Solving Peskin Equation 12.66 Problem

  • physichu
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Graduate How Accurate is the Nucleus Size Determined from Rutherford Scattering?

  • gianeshwar
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Graduate Why ratio atmospheric ##\nu_\mu : \nu_e = 2:1##

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad How Can We Measure the Decay Rate of Uranium-238 Given Its Long Half-Life?

  • dmehling
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Graduate Last on B-mesons and CPV (for now)

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate MSW effect for Solar Neutrinos

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Graduate Parity of photon in nuclear transitions

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Graduate Force between two superconducting wires

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Graduate Typical Momentum Invariants of a 3-Point Function

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Graduate Can You Measure the Spin of a Neutrino Along the X or Y Axes?

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Graduate Trouble Finding Renormalization Conditions in Yukawa Theory

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Graduate Whats the point particle energy due to its referance frame ?

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Graduate Why Does the Bivector Higgs Field Define Custodial Symmetry in Equations 45-51?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Inclusive/Exclusive measurement of B-mesons

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Understanding Indirect vs Direct CP Violation: Explained and Compared

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate How to compute the vertices from interaction lagrangian?

  • Nakul Soni
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Graduate Demi-Bosons: Explained in Particle Physics

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Graduate Describe movement of particles with one equation?

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Graduate Particle beams: energy of released electrons

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Graduate The double line notation and the adjoint representation

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Graduate CKM matrix and meson oscillations [book]

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