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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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Graduate QCD Feynman Diagrams: Understanding Particle Interactions

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Undergrad Can increasing voltage after ionization lead to nuclear explosions?

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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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