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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?
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Graduate QCD: Understanding Leading and Higher Twists
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Graduate Nuclear fission in an atomic bomb
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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?
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Graduate Radius for the path of an electron in a magnetic field
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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?
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Graduate Why to change from momentum space integrals to spherical coordinate ones?
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Graduate Is Fusion Power Efficient Enough to Revolutionize Energy Production?
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Graduate A question about a computation in a paper of Effective Lagrangian
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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Graduate Is High Energy Collision Responsible for Producing Σ+ and K0 Particles?
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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?
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Graduate What New Physics Can Mu2e Discover About Leptoquarks?
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Graduate Relative Angular Momentum in 2 Body Decay at Detector Level
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Graduate Mass dependent multiple scattering
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Graduate The Effects of Radiation on Lead: Examining the Tsar Bomb
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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
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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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Graduate Can the Future Be Predicted with 100% Accuracy Using Particle Properties?
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Graduate A perpetual movement in matter particle
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Graduate Why Do Relativistic Particles Lose Energy Quickly?
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Graduate Why can't an alpha particle be captured by the nucleus?
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Graduate Can Expanding Space Overcome Quark Confinement in Particles?
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Graduate \eta\to\pi^0\gamma decay (Why this decay is forbidden by J?)
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Graduate Oscillating Isotopes: Semi-Stable/Stable Fission/Fusion?
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Graduate Understanding the Wu Experiment: ParityV and Gamma-Ray Anisotropy Explained
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Undergrad Can Alpha Emitters Cause Nearby Gasses to Glow?
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Graduate What is the Correct Factor in the Kinematics of Two Body Decay?
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Neutrino Physics Books: Free E-Books Available
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Graduate A hole in the LHC's vacuum bubble safety argument
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