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Graduate How to take non-relativistic limit of the following Lagrangian
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Undergrad What are the limits of particle accelerators?
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Undergrad Zero spin of Higgs boson? Is it really zero?
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High School Muons: How Particles "Pop In and Out of Existence
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Graduate New results, BEST-Experiment, sterile neutrinos?
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Graduate Is the weak interaction asymptotically free?
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Graduate Does the Z boson pole show up in the photon propagator?
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Undergrad Can a Higgs boson decay into two top quarks off-shell?
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Graduate Lehmann Kallen and spectral representation
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Graduate Metastable vacuum and tunneling
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Undergrad What is the latest discovery in tetraquarks by LHCb?
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Graduate Probability of U-235 fission happening
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Undergrad New Naming Rules for Exotic Hadrons at the LHC: LHCb Collaboration Paper (2022)
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Graduate Solving Problems in "Conformal Field Theories" by Francesco
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High School ETMC lattice results are closer to the measured muon g-2
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Undergrad Are there currently working colliders with unequal beam sizes?
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Undergrad Nuclear Fission of Uranium-235
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Undergrad Nuclear Physics: Yearly Time Measurement
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Graduate First order electroweak correction to the g-2 magnetic moment
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Undergrad Converting density unit ##MeV^4## to SI units
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Undergrad Has photoproduction of gluons been observed?
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Undergrad Electron mass conversion during electron capture
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High School Why Ag 108 decays into Cd 108 most of the time?
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High School Where Can I Find The New Daya Bay Results?
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Undergrad What happens to a gluon that does not have enough energy to hadronize?
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Undergrad Ultra-high energy photon interactions with matter
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Undergrad Unitarity Triangle CP Violation Angle β & θ
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High School U235 Criticality: Neutron Capture and Alpha Emission
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High School Where can I buy a muon detector?
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Graduate Atmospheric electron neutrinos
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Graduate Wilson Coefficient Values for b->s l l in the Standard Model: What Do We Know?
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Undergrad Energy reduction/deflection of beta particles due to isotope geometry
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Graduate A Calculation of a Form Factor at large ##q^2##
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High School Why can't nuclear reactions burn the atmosphere
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Undergrad Neutrinoless double beta decay derivation
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Undergrad Does the Higgs Field Consist of Higgs Bosons?
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Undergrad Electrons from Internal Conversion
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High School Why are SU(3), SU(2) and U(1) groups used in the Standard Model?
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Graduate Any developments on the origin of mass by QCD?
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Graduate A paragraph in"Handbook of QCD" by Mueller
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High School Alpha Particles of Uranium 238
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Undergrad Could a Particle Accelerator in Space Reveal Different Physical Laws?
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Graduate Normalized differential cross section
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High School Understanding Nuclear Fusion and Particle Interactions
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Graduate The Symmetry of Antiparticle Isospin Doublets in Particle Physics
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Undergrad Why are all quarks considered fundamental?
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High School Where does the mass of a W boson come from in beta decay?
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Graduate The Factorization Theorem in Particle Physics
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Graduate HQET Feynman Rule: QCD Interaction Vertex Explained
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Undergrad Pole mass and non stationary mass of a particle
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Undergrad When to use Feynman or Schwinger Parametrization
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Undergrad Help getting my Cloud Chamber to work please
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Undergrad Kurie Plot Y-Axis: Counts, Energy & Time
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Graduate Bubble nucleation and metastable vacuum
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Undergrad Is the spin group spin(n) a double cover for O(n)?
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High School Sievert lethal radiation doses for Non-Humans (other animals)
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Undergrad Why are discontinuous Lorentz transformations excluded from the Poincare group?
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High School Iron, Nuclear Stability and Nuclear Energy
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Graduate Klein Gordon Lagrangian -- Summation question
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High School Quarks, electrons, neutrinos, and photons?
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Graduate Glueballs - definitive detection
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High School Breit Wheeler Matter Production
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Graduate What are Z+, Z-, N+, and N- in the Axial Charge Definition?
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Graduate Clarifying Fradkin's Terminology on Quantum Numbers of Gauge Groups
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High School Compton Scattering and Inverse Compton Scattering
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Undergrad Single particle energy detection
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High School Gamma spectroscopy, Compton edge
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Graduate What knowledge is needed to understand modern QFT research?
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Undergrad Why are free parameters bad for a theory?
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Graduate Global vs. Local (gauge) Symmetry
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Graduate What is Dimensional Transmutation?
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How to understand Proton Structure-function (pdf)
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Undergrad How Will FASERν Transform Our Understanding of Neutrinos at High Energies?
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Graduate Effective Lagrangian: Breaking Causality or Non-Local?
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Undergrad Non-Relativistic Bethe-Bloch Calculation for Alpha Particle in Xenon"
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Graduate Any electron/beta coincidence database?
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Undergrad What would a hypothetical quark-quark collision yield?
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High School Do charged particles always have spin?
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Undergrad Fermi Gas Model: Energetic Degeneration & the Pauli Exclusion Principle
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High School Are quarks fundamental elements of matter?
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Graduate Exploring the Electroweak Interaction: Uniting Weak and Electromagnetic Forces
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Graduate Intuition behind asymptotic freedom/slavery
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Graduate For the W3 and B bosons, what is their hypercharge and isospin?
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Undergrad Upper end of nucleon overtones
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Undergrad High Background Radiation Rates - Is This Normal?
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Graduate Why is the Higgs mechanism needed?
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Graduate $\phi^4$ in $4 - \epsilon$ dimension renormalization beta function
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Graduate Wilson Line Propagator: Understanding Eqtn 5.7 & 5.8
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Graduate Beta/gamma decay probabilities
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High School Using Compton Scattering to Determine Interaction Depth in Materials
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Undergrad Queries on the operation of the LHC with pilot beams before Run 3
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Undergrad Particle lifetime (half-life) question
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Undergrad Experimental average lifetime of particles
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Graduate Higgs field was zero right after Big Bang, could it return to zero?
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High School Source radioactivity estimate from a radiation detector
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Undergrad Discussion of free neutron lifetime
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Undergrad Can Oscillations Explain Neutrino Anomalies?
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Undergrad A test for a superluminal neutrino?
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Undergrad What evidence supports the theory of gluon masslessness?
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Undergrad Channel electron multiplier as an electron source
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