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Graduate Will two particles never touch each other?
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Graduate Color factors of color -- octet scalars
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Graduate Neutrinos and Conservation Laws
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Graduate Non-abelian gauge fields 3-vertex and 4-vertex?
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Graduate Neutral Meson Oscillations (probabilities)
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Undergrad Why are strange quarks strange?
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Graduate Understanding X-ray Spectra: Characteristic vs. Background Radiation
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Graduate Help me to understand the QCD vertex factor
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Graduate Definition of Elementary Particle
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Graduate Neutrinos-Antineutrinos in the universe
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Graduate What are the 8 flavors of gluons?
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Undergrad Self-Sustaining Energy: The Arc Reactor Theory
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Graduate CP Violation in Neutral Kaon Decays
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Graduate Can Electrons Have Energy Below Their Rest Mass?
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Graduate Naming of the Leptons - Find the Right Word
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Graduate Properties of boson in $\phi^4$ theory
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Graduate Phi^4 theory two-loop contributions
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Graduate In the interacting scalar field theory, I have a question.
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High School Is Fire a Plasma? | Physics Debate
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Graduate Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy SCA vs. MCA
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Undergrad Can Nuclear Fission and Fusion Power a Bicycle?
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Graduate Gluon Mass: Does Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Give Them Mass?
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Graduate For the Lagrangian of fermion masses, how do I understand?
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Graduate Weak interaction SU(2) gauge fields W^{1,2,3} and charge?
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Graduate Green's function with same time and spatial arguments
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Graduate 2j+1 d representation for Poincaré group
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Graduate Is there any relationship between quarks and quanta?
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Graduate Are There More Than 3 Quarks in a Proton? The Truth Revealed by Scientists
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Graduate Experiments to distinguish 3-body and 2-body decays?
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Graduate Don't quite Understand the terminology -- Local gauge
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Graduate How does the Higgs field interact with black holes?
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Graduate Microparticle Transport via Directed Particle Gun
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Graduate Electron capture and heavy nuclei
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Undergrad Difference between Photons and the Higgs Boson?
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Graduate D0 decays to K+/K- (CKM suppression)
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Graduate Electron-positron pair production
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Graduate Speed difference between protons & heavy-ions in LHC?
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Graduate Couplings of new Higgs scalars and CP- invariance
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Graduate Non-leptonic hadron decays: preferred paths?
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Graduate Lab frame symmetric/asymmetric energies
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Graduate Pion0 Decay: C-Violation and the Search for 3-Photon Decay
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Graduate ##\pi \rightarrow \gamma \gamma## spin,C,P
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Graduate How Does Air Pressure Affect Electron Beam Penetration?
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Graduate Electron-Positron Annihilation Conservation Laws
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Graduate Understanding Color Factors in Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate How do we know quarks aren't just parts of broken-up protons
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Undergrad Stability of Nucleus: Neutron's Role
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Graduate Energy of an electron at rest?
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Graduate Prerequisites for learning MSSM --> proton decay prediction?
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Undergrad Strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force
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Graduate Non-relativistic limit of Dirac bilinear
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Graduate Scaled Particle Theory: Rigid Spheres Equation of State
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Graduate Distinguish between positron and proton
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Graduate Subatomic particles propagating through steel?
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Graduate Proton–lithium-7 fusion - energy of the two He nuclei?
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Graduate ##\mu##2##e\gamma## probability
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Graduate Why do high energy accelerators have to be so large?
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Graduate Impact of molecular bonding on therm. neutron cross-sections
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Graduate Another question from Srednicki's QFT book
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Graduate Understanding Gaisser's atmospheric muon parameterization?
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Undergrad Materials that are transparent to alpha particles?
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Graduate Mean number of neutron interactions over distance d
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Graduate Will LHC season 2 tell us more about the Higgs Field?
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Graduate Matter - anti matter annihilation
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Graduate Measuring Higgs Spin to Detecting Symmetry in Decay Products
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Graduate Particles vs. Virtual Particles vs. Fields
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Graduate Can you explain this 'Theory of Everything' formula?
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Graduate Where to Find Energy in Joules of Particle Accelerators
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Insights LHC Part 2: Commissioning - comments
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Undergrad Creation of Matter: Solving for Mass with E=mc^2
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Graduate What is the Condition of Nuclear Fission?
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Graduate Do you believe the Higgs boson was experimentally confirmed?
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Undergrad What are radioactive particles?
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Graduate Higgs field and my non-physicist friend
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Undergrad How do the electrons enter the bubble chamber?
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Graduate Can there by a theory that is both UV and IR stable?
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Graduate Definition of charge of a free electron
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Graduate Can Protons and Electrons Combine to Form Neutrons in Stars?
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Graduate Researching Pi-N Scattering and Virtual Photon Excitation of Neucleons
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Graduate How does one derive the Lagrangian densities used in QFT?
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Graduate U(2) charge commutator being zero
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Graduate Can momentum be calculated to achieve a 2mm decay length for a tau particle?
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Graduate Can Neutrinos Be Reflected and What Are the Spin Considerations?
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Graduate ##Ds^{\pm}## to ##\tau## question on Branching Ratio
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Graduate Parity and total angular momentum
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Graduate A modern intro to lattice QCD?
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Graduate Direct product of two representations
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Graduate Why can the omega meson not decay to 3 neutral pions?
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Graduate Can Ion Trapping Approaches Effectively Contain Fusion Plasma?
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Graduate Direct energy conversion from p+Li-7 fusion reaction?
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Graduate What Lies Beyond the Higgs Boson in Particle Physics?
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Undergrad Why Do Up & Down Quarks Have Different Charge?
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Graduate Technical question about loop corrections
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Graduate Needing elemental alpha particle scattering/peak resonances
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Insights LHC Part 3: Protons as Large as a Barn - Comments
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Graduate Semi-empirical mass formula and the pairing term
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Graduate Can Muonium Be Produced and Observed in Electron-Positron Collider Experiments?
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Graduate Lagrangian of Standard Model Deduction
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Graduate Why beryllium for neutron multiplication
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