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High School Why is the electron the only particle dominating technology?

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Undergrad Why is bremsstrahlung radiation greater than acceleration radiation?

  • cemtu
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Undergrad Can neutrino oscillations involve a massless eigenstate?

  • snorkack
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High School What are the differences between relict and relic?

  • KingGambit
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Undergrad How does the electrical field become bent instead of following a straight line?

  • cemtu
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Undergrad Kramer's Equation at max Energy for photons is giving Intensity = 0

  • cemtu
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High School Would a solid neutron mass be stable?

  • BWV
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High School What Are the Project Goals for the Jiangman Underground Observatory (JUNO)?

  • Salman Khan
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Graduate Renormalisation of the Fermionic triangle loop

  • Ramtin123
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Graduate Beta Decay, why did they have to resort to Neutrinos?

  • GregM
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Undergrad From what locations do radiated electrons start their movement in Beta decay?

  • cemtu
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Graduate Removing (2π)^3/2 factors from Weinberg's free field operators

  • topsquark
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High School Why does Lithium fission produce energy?

  • Jackissimus
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High School Safety concerns building a fusor: neutrons, tritium, and shielding

  • JNewman
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Graduate QFT for the gifted amateur: translation of prob. density

  • haushofer
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Graduate What Are the Final Electronic and Ionic States of 72Ga After Decay to 72Ge?

  • Malamala
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Graduate When to use collective and when shell model?

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Why not deuterium-proton fusion?

  • Jakko
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High School Magnetic bottle is said to store hydrogen (and then convert into helium?)

  • Doriangrey
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Undergrad New IceCube results next Thursday (June 29)

  • mfb
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Undergrad Concentrated arcs in bubble chamber photos

  • wingythingy
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Undergrad How does electric attraction work at subatomic scales?

  • Antineutrino
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High School Has anyone measured the electron's size directly or indirectly?

  • jeanpinto844
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Undergrad New QCD Parameter Determinations

  • ohwilleke
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Undergrad Calc Ampl & Cross Sec: Electron + Positron to Photon + Z Boson

  • DuckAmuck
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High School Can a hypothetical atom be made out of positrons and electrons ?

  • scythe327
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Graduate How to calculate Feynman amplitude in Fish diagram

  • Alpha2021
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Graduate The μ in dimensional regularization

  • erikasan
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Undergrad Does the New Muon g-2 Measurement Indicate Physics Beyond the Standard Model?

  • ohwilleke
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Graduate Why KE of Annihilation Electrons Differs?

  • cemtu
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Graduate Tunneling from a True Vacuum to a False One: Is it Possible for the Higgs Field?

  • emanaly
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Undergrad Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions and Half-Life Constraints

  • InkTide
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Undergrad Doubling Ionization of Tungsten: Effects on Energy?

  • illisil
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Undergrad Decay constant of Different Elements and Isotopes?

  • Aromalsp
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Undergrad Q value for a radioactive decay

  • eneacasucci
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Graduate What are the 2n-1 relations in the Cabibbo and CKM matrices?

  • Heidi
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Undergrad Experiment finds gluon mass in the proton (?)

  • Astronuc
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High School Pinched plasma inside a neutral beam injector

  • Andrewtv848
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Undergrad Why were quark color numbers equal in the initial quark-gluon plasma?

  • doubter
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Undergrad How to depict a nuclear magnetic octupole

  • BillKet
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Undergrad Does radioactive decay turn one element into another?

  • oblong-pea
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Graduate Electron capture in a molecule

  • BillKet
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High School Beta Plus Decay: What's Left for the Electron?

  • InkTide
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Undergrad Can Neutron-X Fusion Reactions Overcome the Repulsion Problem in Fusion Energy?

  • benswitala
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Graduate Best position resolution for electron/ion detection with MCPs

  • BillKet
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High School Canadian Antineutrino Detector detects Nuclear Power Plants from 240km

  • .Scott
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Undergrad New Constraints On The Higgs Boson Width

  • ohwilleke
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Undergrad Are there examples of particles with the same size but different masses?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Correlation between size and mass of particles

  • Ranku
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Graduate Solving this first-order differential equation for neutron abundance

  • gurbir_s
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Graduate Extra factor in Weinberg QFT1 equation 5.1.13 derivation

  • PRB147
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Undergrad Majorana mass term versus neutrino oscillation

  • Vanadium 50
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Undergrad What is the derivation of the Fermi golden rule?

  • James_1978
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Graduate Experimental nucleon form factors from electron-nucleus scattering

  • Yuen
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Graduate ATLAS reanalysis of W mass: Lower uncertainty, agrees with SM

  • mfb
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High School Can Unlimited Energy Launch Objects into Orbit Using Accelerator Technology?

  • OutOfTheBox
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Undergrad Do cross section and mass uniquely determine each other for WIMPs?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Fixing CP phases to cancel CKM phases

  • Siupa
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Graduate Something is wrong in the state of QED...?

  • haushofer
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Undergrad Does antineutrino capture preferentially form neutrons?

  • snorkack
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Undergrad How to distinguish proton decay from antineutrino interaction

  • swampwiz
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Graduate What is the energy dependence of the Equivalent photon approximation?

  • ribella
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Undergrad Lorentz invariant phase space and cross section

  • simonjech
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High School Why don't neutrons bind into large out of control masses?

  • FrankJ777
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Undergrad 1-loop Fermion mass correction in toy EFT

  • Siupa
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Graduate Why is W boson decay to tau leptons neglected in calculations?

  • ribella
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Undergrad Higher-order terms in Peskin equation 4.121 on page 121

  • thatboi
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Graduate Minimum-variance bound for the extended maximum likelihood estimation

  • xxww
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Undergrad Having problems finding an equation for radioisotope production yield

  • fissile_uranium
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Graduate To set up parameters for the sherpa tool

  • waglebivu
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Undergrad Can surface plasmons be used to build GeV gamma-ray lasers?

  • redirmigician
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Graduate How Do X-Ray Collisions Generate Secondary Particles in Silicon and Aluminum?

  • mohamis288
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Undergrad Expansion at first order in QCD counterterm

  • Siupa
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Graduate Showing Delta^3(p-q) is Not Lorentz Invariant

  • TroyElliott
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High School Particle creation and annihilation

  • DiracPool
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High School Fusion, bigger output than input?

  • John Mcrain
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Graduate Does 15F Qualify as an sd Shell Nucleus?

  • amyy
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High School Graphical representation of the weak mixing angle

  • Sandglass
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Graduate Uncommon Publications: Feynman & Sommer-Hipple

  • apostolosdt
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Undergrad How bad is this article about uranium glass?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Question on Baryons and Specific Decays

  • olv
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Graduate Covariant four-potential in the Dirac equation in QED

  • Shen712
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Undergrad Are SM B & L conservation violations through sphalerons possible?

  • ohwilleke
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Undergrad Equation which is related with the Lorentz invariant quantities

  • Dhmht_Kr
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High School How hard have they banged on quarks, electrons, etc.?

  • HomesliceMMA
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Undergrad Removing a proton with a particle accelerator

  • jgav9876
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Graduate Can any thin materials protect a Mars spacecraft from gamma rays?

  • osaplabs_sja
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Graduate CDF measures W mass higher than predicted

  • Isopod
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Graduate How can you tell the spin of a particle by looking at the Lagrangian?

  • BiGyElLoWhAt
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Undergrad Higgs decay to Z and Z* at LHC

  • Dhmht_Kr
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Graduate Does CPT Symmetry Apply to a Mirror World with Reversed Properties?

  • questionner
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Graduate Alpha Stopping Power Database for High Z Materials

  • sussybaka
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High School What Happens to Very Energetic Protons After Collision?

  • Sphere
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Undergrad About Direct Laser Acceleration

  • redirmigician
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High School What wires should I use for my wire chamber?

  • BiemNL
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Undergrad New IceCube results November 3 (neutrinos from galaxy NGC 1068)

  • mfb
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Graduate Fast electrons passing a beam of slow electrons at a right angle

  • Philip Koeck
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High School Plasma recovery at wakefield accelerators

  • redirmigician
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High School Do photons come from electron transitions and neutron decay the same way?

  • sadaronjiggasha
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Graduate New model of high-spin Baryons

  • mitchell porter
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