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Is positronium really an orbiting pair of electron/positron ?
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Scalar in adjoint representation
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What defines the kind of decay an isotope would go for?
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Yang-Mills Theory Explained: SU(N) Symmetry & Gauge Theory
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Are protons and neutrons considered point particles?
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Showing Beta Decay (Feynman diagrams?)
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Classical and quantum electromagnetic field
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Problem with Wick's theorem at first order
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From Feynman diagrams to potential
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Vortices in hot plasma, not in real space, but in phase-space.
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Understanding Beta+ Decay: What is 511 KEV?
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How can I obtain the gamma spectrum of an Am-Be source in MCNPX 2.6?
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Can Plasma Filamentation be Achieved with Magnetic Fields?
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Discovering CMS (Cern): Download & Usage
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Gluons, where do they come from and where do they go?
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What happens when an electron and positron collide
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What Is the Relationship Between Vertex Function and Wave Function of Mesons?
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High energy e- e- scattering, ratio inelastic/elastic cross-sections?
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Is CERN's Discovery Truly a Higgs Particle or Something Else?
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Creating a Plasma-Based Hovercraft
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Creating Higgs Boson: Mass & Energy Needed?
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Help with Higgs Strahlung Production & Formulating a Matrix Element
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What happens if the nuclear bomb is placed and exploded on the Jupiter
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Is the Higgs Field Homogeneous or Does It Vary with Particle Interactions?
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Annihilation and potential energy?
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Understanding Counts in a Geiger Counter: A Mechanistic Explanation
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Neutrinos change flavor, energy transfer
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Beta plus and Beta minus decay
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The Galois Group of Quarks: How is a Group Assigned to a Particle?
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Derivating a Yukawa theory loop-integral
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Anti-matter Creation Questions/ Discussion
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Quark Stability: Light vs Heavy - Why Study?
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Suitable Container Materials for Plasma
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The fundamental forces and elementary particles at absolute zero
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Particles moving through the higgs field
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Build Particle Analyzer for Accelerators - Info Here
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Fundamental theories are gauge theories
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Fourth particle in Electroweak theory
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Solve Fusion Energy Equation: High School Physics Errors
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Why is Higgs particle a doublet
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One family of fermions SU(2)LXU(1)
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What sparked the concept of baryon number in particle physics?
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Vacuum fluctuations do not exist
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Higgs Boson Confusion: Answers to Your Questions
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Any Practical, Daily Uses for Higgs Field?
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Eta prime meson as SU(3) singlet
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Maximizing Particle Detection at the LHC: The Role of Photons, Jets, and Leptons
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Proton e goes to zero, smaller g, , vacuum color polarization.
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Relation between momentum and mass of quarks
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Higgs to photon decay + neutrino
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Why is the Higgs Field not considered a fifth fundamental force?
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Estimating the order of magnitude of a ratio of two cross sections
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Why this expression is time-reversal odd?
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Higgs-Boson Particle Explained in Layman's Terms for Jonas
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Relationship between single particle partition function and V
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Quarks and Strong Attraction Calculation
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The representation of Lorentz group
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Solving Muon Decay Calc: Need Help!
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Need help with stable-unstable cores(cells)
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ψ in formula for strong force currents, how many components?
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Feynman diagram for gluon exchange, time up, gluon horizontal.
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Why does the Schwinger parameter correspond to proper length?
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What is the difference between wave and particle?
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Understanding K Mixing Level, K Selectivity and K Quantum Numbers
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Questions on Proton Beam Experiment at CERN
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Nuclear Spin of Sodium 23 Explained
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Why are heilicty and chirality equivalent for massless particles?
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Momentum exchange of virtual pions
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What is the highest density of man made plasma?
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How Do Spin, Isospin, and Charges Interact in Particle Physics?
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Distribution of protons in nucleus
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Size of a proton as a function of relative strength of color force?
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Strong vs Weak Decay: Lifetimes Explained
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Quantifying an Off-axis Neutrinos (probability and intensity)
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Simulation of pp-collision and Z boson production
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Attractive force from gauge particle exchange
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Symmetry energy in nuclear physics
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Resonance Peak Width: How Does it Relate to Scattering Processes?
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Experimental searches for tachyons
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Proof of no net gravitational force on a particle inside uniform shell
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What is nuclear symmetry energy?
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About degrees of freedom of fermions
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CKM Matrix for N Quark Generations: Reduced Parameters
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2 -> 2 hadronic production cross section
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Yang Mills SU(N) charge couplings
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Hadrons rest mass comes from gluon field?
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Is Electroweak Symmetry the Key to Understanding the Unified Force?
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Exploring SM EL Equations & Higgs Mechanism
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What are the integrated luminosity values for CMS at Cern?
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Does the higgs mechanism explain the observed masses of sub particles?
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Optimizing Activation Coil Selection for Maximum Gamma Flux
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Higgs mechanism and relativity
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Can Non-Perturbative QCD Be Classified as High Energy Physics?
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Calculating the Theoretical Mass of Quarks and Hadrons: Is it Possible?
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Difference between color and strong forces?
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Some words on neutrino physics?
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Lienard-Weichert derived from QED?
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Quantum Entanglement on two particles
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Question regarding Lab cross section of spectra
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Investigating Possible Impurities on RBS Spectra of a Rhodium-Silicon System
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