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Graduate QCD Feynman Diagrams: Understanding Particle Interactions
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Graduate Nuclear explosion and black holes
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Undergrad What Are the Different Origins of Helium?
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Graduate Do Electrons and Positrons Have a Finite Lifetime?
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Undergrad Penetration of X Rays in body tissue
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Graduate Diagram of relative strengths of fundamental forces
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Graduate How can we say a particle is a particle or an antiparticle
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Undergrad How is energy released in nuclear fission?
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Graduate What Are the Current Insights on Various Fusion Technologies Like Sonofusion?
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Graduate Antimatter Self: Does Our Antimatter Form Exist?
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of delta function
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Graduate List of Charge Conjugation and Parity numbers
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Graduate Proton-proton inelastic cross section in MeV
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Graduate Two questions about the binding energy chart?
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Graduate Why is goldstone's theorem incorrect in gauge theories?
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Undergrad Can better technologies overcome the size limitations of particle accelerators?
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Graduate Why is the strength of weak nuclear force important ?
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Graduate SU(2) axial and vector subgroups
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Undergrad Does fusion nuclear reaction produce alpha ridation
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Graduate Non-canonical terms of scalar fields
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Graduate Are Dirac Spinors Indicating Two Particles in Your Solution?
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Graduate Inelastic and elastic scattering and absorption.
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Graduate What's the relation between Mass Defect and the Strong Nuclear Force?
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Graduate Is positronium really an orbiting pair of electron/positron ?
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Graduate Scalar in adjoint representation
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Undergrad What defines the kind of decay an isotope would go for?
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Graduate Yang-Mills Theory Explained: SU(N) Symmetry & Gauge Theory
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Undergrad Are protons and neutrons considered point particles?
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Graduate Showing Beta Decay (Feynman diagrams?)
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Undergrad Alpha Decay, Binding Energy and fusion
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Graduate Classical and quantum electromagnetic field
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Graduate Problem with Wick's theorem at first order
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Graduate From Feynman diagrams to potential
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Graduate Vortices in hot plasma, not in real space, but in phase-space.
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Undergrad Understanding Beta+ Decay: What is 511 KEV?
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Graduate How can I obtain the gamma spectrum of an Am-Be source in MCNPX 2.6?
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Graduate Can Plasma Filamentation be Achieved with Magnetic Fields?
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Discovering CMS (Cern): Download & Usage
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Graduate Gluons, where do they come from and where do they go?
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Undergrad What happens when an electron and positron collide
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Graduate What Is the Relationship Between Vertex Function and Wave Function of Mesons?
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Graduate High energy e- e- scattering, ratio inelastic/elastic cross-sections?
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High School What Makes Positrons Different from Electrons?
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Graduate Is CERN's Discovery Truly a Higgs Particle or Something Else?
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Graduate Creating a Plasma-Based Hovercraft
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Graduate Creating Higgs Boson: Mass & Energy Needed?
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Graduate Help with Higgs Strahlung Production & Formulating a Matrix Element
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High School What happens if the nuclear bomb is placed and exploded on the Jupiter
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Undergrad Have you tried the Cloud Chamber Experiment?
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Graduate Is the Higgs Field Homogeneous or Does It Vary with Particle Interactions?
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Graduate Annihilation and potential energy?
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Graduate Understanding Counts in a Geiger Counter: A Mechanistic Explanation
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Graduate Neutrinos change flavor, energy transfer
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Graduate Beta plus and Beta minus decay
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Graduate The Galois Group of Quarks: How is a Group Assigned to a Particle?
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Graduate Derivating a Yukawa theory loop-integral
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Graduate Anti-matter Creation Questions/ Discussion
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Graduate Quark Stability: Light vs Heavy - Why Study?
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Undergrad Suitable Container Materials for Plasma
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Undergrad The fundamental forces and elementary particles at absolute zero
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Graduate Particles moving through the higgs field
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Graduate Looking for reference on decay randomness
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Graduate Function of a Proton Synchrotron
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Build Particle Analyzer for Accelerators - Info Here
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Graduate Fundamental theories are gauge theories
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Graduate Fourth particle in Electroweak theory
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High School Solve Fusion Energy Equation: High School Physics Errors
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Graduate Why is Higgs particle a doublet
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Graduate One family of fermions SU(2)LXU(1)
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Graduate What sparked the concept of baryon number in particle physics?
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Graduate Vacuum fluctuations do not exist
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Graduate Higgs Boson Confusion: Answers to Your Questions
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Graduate Any Practical, Daily Uses for Higgs Field?
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Graduate Eta prime meson as SU(3) singlet
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Graduate Maximizing Particle Detection at the LHC: The Role of Photons, Jets, and Leptons
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Graduate Proton e goes to zero, smaller g, , vacuum color polarization.
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Undergrad Help a science noob: What is a meson?
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Graduate Relation between momentum and mass of quarks
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Graduate Higgs to photon decay + neutrino
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Graduate Why is the Higgs Field not considered a fifth fundamental force?
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Graduate Estimating the order of magnitude of a ratio of two cross sections
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Graduate Why this expression is time-reversal odd?
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High School Higgs-Boson Particle Explained in Layman's Terms for Jonas
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Graduate Is the energy generated from matter-antimatter annihilation useful?
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Graduate Relationship between single particle partition function and V
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Graduate Quarks and Strong Attraction Calculation
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High School Discoveries of the Large Hadron Collider
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Graduate The representation of Lorentz group
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Graduate Solving Muon Decay Calc: Need Help!
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Graduate Need help with stable-unstable cores(cells)
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High School About neutrons and proton in nucleus
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Graduate ψ in formula for strong force currents, how many components?
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Graduate Feynman diagram for gluon exchange, time up, gluon horizontal.
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Graduate Why does the Schwinger parameter correspond to proper length?
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High School What is the difference between wave and particle?
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Graduate Understanding K Mixing Level, K Selectivity and K Quantum Numbers
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Graduate Questions on Proton Beam Experiment at CERN
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Graduate Nuclear Spin of Sodium 23 Explained
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Graduate Why are heilicty and chirality equivalent for massless particles?
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