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Graduate Octets for Baryons: What is the Other Octet?
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Graduate Proving SuSy Algebra Fulfillment for Qa & Qb Commutation
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Graduate What is Decay Width & Its Relation to Particle Lifetime
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Graduate Particle number lorentz invariant?
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Graduate Quark-Gloun plasma thermodynamics
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Graduate How can a proton form a neutron?
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Graduate Electron mass radiative corrections
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Undergrad Deuterium Bulb Safety - What Happens if it Breaks?
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Graduate Where do the jets come from in quark-antiquark interactions?
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Graduate Why does ψ'' have a lower leptonic branching ratio compared to ψ' and J/ψ?
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Undergrad Spatial distribution of radiation from radioactive elements
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Undergrad What is the distribution of mass in an atomic nucleus?
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Graduate Why are exited states of an Isotope metastable?
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Graduate Neutrinos incident on target - interaction with nucleons or nuclei?
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Graduate Pion Decay into Gamma rays angle
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Graduate Virtual bosons and conservation of energy
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Graduate Penguin diagrams and CP violation
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Graduate Conserved charge from Lorentz symmetry
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Undergrad Net Charge of Daughter Atoms in Radioactive Decay: Does it Always Change?
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Undergrad Undergrad Research - Parabolic Cherenkov Detector
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Graduate Baryon Multiplets and quark content
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Graduate Why EM and weak interaction are unified
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Graduate Pair Production, electron and positron from isolated photon
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Undergrad When determining if a decay is possible, is there a method to use?
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Graduate Photon helicity: Wigner's unitary rep. of Poincare group and gauge symmetry
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Graduate How to Determine the Range of Strong and Weak Interaction
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Graduate Understanding Color Factors in Eq. 8.45-8.46
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Graduate How Does Chiral Symmetry Breakdown Influence Meson Mass Differences?
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Graduate Proving the "Thread Change: Spinor Identity
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Graduate Counting degrees of freedom for Goldstone bosons
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Graduate Rules of Parity and Charge Conjugation Parity
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Graduate Possible decays of buttomonium
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Graduate Is the point of QFTs that we can 'derive' particles?
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Undergrad How does U 238 change to U 235 in natural in earth
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Graduate Why only delayed neutrons matter ?
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Undergrad How Do Ionization and Radiation Energy Loss Differ in Materials?
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Graduate Breit-Wigner Distribution: What is it & How is it Used?
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Graduate Beta Decay Q&A: Quarks, W Bosons & More
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Graduate Unveiling the Mystery of Proton Spin
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Graduate Zero dipole moment in stationary state?
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Undergrad Can this diagram make any sense? [counts of alpha decay]
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Graduate Wilson Cloud Chamber: Observing Cosmic Particles
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Graduate Particle Decay: Radioactivity & Reversibility
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High School Isotopes: Proton vs Neutron Counts
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Graduate Pauli exclusion regarding nucleons
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Graduate Why Is Carbon-14 Radioactive Despite Its Small Nucleus Size?
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Graduate Doubt on sign of the propagator on Peskin
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Graduate Feynman diagram for radiative transition
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the photon/baryon ratio
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Graduate How can majorana neutrinos still be CP violating?
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Graduate Fierz Identity Question: Understanding the Transformation and Matrices
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Graduate Is the higgs boson the mediator of the higgs field?
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Graduate Source of Energy in a Fission Reaction
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Graduate Feynman diagram for pair annihilation
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Graduate Why can't we detect neutrino-antineutrino annihilation?
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Graduate Are Neutrinos the Missing Dark Matter?
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Graduate Can dyons be broken down into scalar and pseudoscalar components?
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Graduate E.o.m. for a particle in a sphere of dust
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Graduate A question about Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Can We Consider Elementary Particles and Gravity Without a Minkowski Metric?
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Graduate Why massless particle can only have two helicity states?
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Graduate A manifesto on gauge invariance - how am I wrong?
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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum in nuclear physics
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Graduate Electron-Muon Scattering Cross Section
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High School Energy of Particle: How to Calculate Joules from Temp
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Graduate Gauge invariance Vs. Gauge covariance
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Graduate In the formation of bonds, is Binding Energy absorbed or released
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Graduate Hamiltonian formulation of QCD and nucleon mass
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Graduate Why Study Hadron Physics and the Decay Constant of Mesons?
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Undergrad Where do the initial neutrons come from?
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Graduate Where Does the Energy Go in Atomic Collisions?
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Graduate Matter Vs. Antimatter-They have reversed charge, but sadly not reverse gravity.
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Graduate Particle Physics Table: Find All Particles & Properties
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Graduate Furry's theorem and soft bremsstrahlung
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Graduate Why we use the trace calculation?
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Graduate Feynman diagrams with odd number of vertices.
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Graduate How to determine the decay mode probability of a pion
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High School Possible webpage title: Understanding Nucleus Spin in Atoms
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Graduate Centre of mass frame in nuclear reactions?
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Graduate Minimal subtraction vs Momentum subtraction schemes
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Graduate Advanced : HQET Derivative manipulation
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Graduate Plasma Multipactor by Gene Meeks: Self-Sustaining Power Device?
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Graduate Orbital quantum number in the shell model
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Graduate Difference between heavy and light mesons
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Undergrad Why don't dark matter and other such particles hit us?
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Graduate Have Quark Collision Experiments Revealed the Nature of Matter?
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Graduate Why is Planck time scaled by c^5?
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Graduate Stimulated virtual W+, W- when supernova core-> neutron star?
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Undergrad Question about monoisotopic elements
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High School What does a radionuclide with a short half-life mean?
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Graduate Relative Momentum of Quarks in Mesons at Center of Mass Frame
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Graduate Dimension of n-point Green function
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Graduate How Can Lone Quarks Exist in a Color-Neutral Quark-Gluon Plasma?
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the standard model
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Graduate Binding Energy: Why Does Deuterium Have 1 MeV?
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Graduate Adjust parameters of Standard Model so only photons, e-, e+ remain?
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Graduate The Higgs field (mechanism) is the cause of fictitious forces?
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Undergrad Can lead shielding block beta particles?
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Graduate Neutrino beam passes through optics lens, focus the neutrinos?
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