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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?

  • Sven Andersson
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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?

  • Naeem Anwar
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Graduate Lagrangian of Standard Model Deduction

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Graduate Why beryllium for neutron multiplication

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Undergrad Why is combustion exothermic and what role does oxygen's electronegativity play?

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Graduate Can Color Singlets Be Formed for Baryons and Mesons?

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Graduate Clarification neutral Kaon decay (Griffith, Elem. Particles)

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Graduate What are the different forms of Virtual Photons?

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Graduate Perturbation theory in strong interaction regime

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Graduate Do bound, unstable particles decay more slowly?

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Graduate Can antiparticles annihilate different types of particles?

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Graduate How can e-e+ possibly go to ZZ?

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Graduate What is a Decay width really, qualitatively?

  • AlanKirby
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Graduate QCD: Understanding Leading and Higher Twists

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Graduate Nuclear fission in an atomic bomb

  • Ryan Bruch
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Graduate Neutral meson vs. neutrino oscillations

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Undergrad Number of ionizations by heavy ion beam

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Graduate Why can only the weak interaction change quark flavour?

  • AlanKirby
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Graduate Radius for the path of an electron in a magnetic field

  • KarenRei
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Graduate QCD & Weak Theory: Furry's Theorem & Beyond

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Graduate Fission or Fusion: What Type of Nuclear Reaction Involves Li-6?

  • Stephanus
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Graduate Why to change from momentum space integrals to spherical coordinate ones?

  • Breo
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Graduate Is Fusion Power Efficient Enough to Revolutionize Energy Production?

  • Stephanus
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Graduate A question about a computation in a paper of Effective Lagrangian

  • Breo
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Graduate Why doesn't Rubidium decay to Strontium?

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Graduate Electromagnetic interactions and exchange particles

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Graduate Can Protons and Electrons Combine to Form Neutrons?

  • Stephanus
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Graduate Why aren't all Cosmic Ray energies 'effective'?

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Graduate A question about Weisskopf-Wigner approximation

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Graduate Are neutrinos much more abundant than atoms?

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Undergrad Why is the central electrode in a G.M. tube positive?

  • Charles W
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Graduate Black hole seeding vacuum decay

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Undergrad Why do I plot certain Raman against the wavenumber

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Graduate How can we build the spin 2 graviton representation of little group O(9) in QFT?

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Graduate Can Two Levi-Civita Symbols be Reduced to One with Indices?

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Graduate Neutron interaction/absorbtion length of lithium-6 deutride?

  • Arun S. Johnson
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Graduate Can you make plasma with UV Rays?

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Graduate How does a particle detect the presence of another?

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Graduate Is Weak Isospin Conservation Provable Using Noether's Theorem?

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Graduate Uncertainty Principle & W Boson Energy (Mass): Higgs Reconciled?

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Graduate Energy for photodisintegration of deuterium?

  • Arun S. Johnson
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Graduate Neutrino Oscillation in matter

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Graduate What Does Disassembling a Nucleus Truly Mean?

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Graduate Standard Model Anomalies: right-handed neutrinos

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Graduate Gauge invariance is not normal invariance?

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High School What is binding energy can anyone please explain thank you

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Graduate The Higgs role in the universe

  • Breo
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Graduate Why don't a charm-anticharm meson decay to pair of leptons?

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Undergrad Does the annihilation of a proton always result in gamma radiation emission?

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Graduate How Do RICH Detectors Utilize Mirrors to Measure Cherenkov Radiation?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Evidence that the neutrinos are different?

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Graduate "silly" question - Neutrino observation

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Graduate Higgs mass - Why is it a Gaussian distribution?

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Graduate What is the concept of scale invariance in quantum field theory?

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Graduate Interpretation of Bremsstrahlung diagram

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Graduate Can someone explain to me this process?

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Graduate Do all exchange bosons violate energy conservation?

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Graduate So why does baryon octet have the extra spin?

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Graduate Relating partial width to helicity

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Graduate LHC about to restart - some frequently asked questions

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Graduate Understanding the need for the Higgs Field

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Graduate K-Long and K-Short pion decay cross sections

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Graduate Parity formulae, orbital angular momentum, mesons

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Graduate Time of flight experiment to distinguish muons from pions?

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Graduate ##\bar{\psi}=e^{i\theta}\psi## global gauge transformation

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Graduate Charge of the W bosons in the Higgs Mechanism

  • nigelscott
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Graduate Is High Energy Collision Responsible for Producing Σ+ and K0 Particles?

  • Xuekai Du
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Graduate Meissner effect and levitation

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Graduate How Does Normalization Affect Momentum States in Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Helicity Op: Commuting Dirac Hamiltonian

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Graduate Neutral particle oscillation and energy conservation

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Graduate Do boson's have anti-particle versions of themselves?

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Graduate How to get the lowest order ChPT amplitudes?

  • Thor Shen
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Graduate What New Physics Can Mu2e Discover About Leptoquarks?

  • Naeem Anwar
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Graduate Relative Angular Momentum in 2 Body Decay at Detector Level

  • Naeem Anwar
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Graduate Mass dependent multiple scattering

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Graduate The Effects of Radiation on Lead: Examining the Tsar Bomb

  • Sean Conley
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High School Is it possible to deduce the number of protons from the mass

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Graduate CPT Invariance of Hermitian & Lorentz Lagrangians

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Graduate Solving Neutrino Confusion: 3 Types Explained

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Graduate Cross Section for e+e- in EM interaction - Is it the same?

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Graduate Stuck on last part of class derivation (proof) K-G Eqn

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Graduate Weak Isospin, Chirality and Helicity

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Graduate Examples of mass predictions using running masses

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Graduate Neutrino Oscillations -partition of PMNS

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Ignorance about a particle in a box

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Graduate Unravelling the Mystery of Higgs boson and Light Particles

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Graduate Polarization vectors of spin-1 particles

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Undergrad Particle Vibration, Velocity, Gravity, Force

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Graduate Calculating Cross Sections in Supersymmetry: A Comprehensive Guide

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Graduate Any signs of fundamental blocks of energy?

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Graduate Neutron cross section in fission

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