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High School Can a muon entering a lithium battery trigger spontaneous combustion?
- x_engineer
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Graduate Lagrangian density for the spinor fields
- wasi-uz-zaman
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High School Is the Standard Model overfitted?
- danielcmk
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High School Thinking about a calendar epoch based on the field of physics
- tade
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Undergrad What is the meaning of 'CP violation' in the Cronin and Fitch experiment?
- Y Y Kim
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High School Why do photons get blocked while neutrinos pass through matter?
- Simon Peach
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High School Sabine Hossenfelder on the search for new particles
- DrClaude
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Undergrad Proton electric polarizability and structure (recent measurement)
- Astronuc
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Undergrad GM tube and dual probe scintillator
- jacob1
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High School Deuterium combustion within inertial fusion schemes
- artis
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Undergrad Incorrect units when calculating cosmic ray muon flux
- Sciencemaster
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Undergrad Separation of Plasma into positive nucleus and negative electrons
- Blaze
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Undergrad Multi-GeV Electron Bunches from All-Optical Laser Wakefield Accelerator
- Astronuc
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Undergrad Speed faster than light speed in a medium
- abdossamad2003
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Undergrad LHC Restarts in 2022 - Live Updates
- mfb
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Graduate Conversion of millicuries to Kilograys (?)
- Matt Doherty
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Undergrad 7Li(p,e+e−)8Be direct proton-capture reaction X17
- kodama
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Undergrad How does particle exchange distinguish attraction from repulsion?
- Jrs580
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Undergrad Field fluctuations in the vacuum
- Jrs580
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Graduate Antiproton reactions with water
- pxe2
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High School How do alpha particles interact with electrons in gold foil experiments?
- tbn032
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Graduate How making the ions leave the cavity in a ion sources
- coquelicot
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High School How can a superconductor be used to detect monopoles?
- Awwtumn
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High School Why does parity give raise to pseudovectors?
- Phylosopher
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High School Is there an experiment that shows strong force grows with distance?
- Cody Livengood
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High School Do Alternative Explanations for Gluons Exist and How Can We Test Them?
- Cody Livengood
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Undergrad Krauss's interpretation of gauge theory
- joneall
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Undergrad Does the property "equal charges repel" still work for non abelian theories?
- arivero
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Undergrad LHCb discovers pentaquarks and tetraquarks
- malawi_glenn
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High School How do we prove electrons exist beyond matching observations?
- Iloveyou
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Graduate No CP-Violation for coinciding Quark-Masses
- Aigologist
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High School How did quarks appear in the Universe?
- Sphere
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Undergrad Would higher-mass quarks result in smaller baryons?
- bbbl67
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Graduate What are the different types of long-lived hadrons and their properties?
- snorkack
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Graduate Penetration depth of a ion beam coupled with an EM wave
- coquelicot
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Graduate What experiments could help measure light quark masses more precisely?
- ohwilleke
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Undergrad Does K-40 Capture Electrons With Orbital Angular Momentum?
- snorkack
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Undergrad Seminar: First LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search results
- mfb
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Graduate How Are SU(2) and U(1) Representations Combined in Particle Physics?
- lalo_u
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High School Dark matter, Higgs boson, gravity
- afcsimoes
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Undergrad Four neutrons form a transient isolated entity - a tetraneutron?
- Astronuc
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Undergrad Strange Star Physics: Existence of Baryons?
- bbbl67
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Graduate How to take non-relativistic limit of the following Lagrangian
- Tan Tixuan
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Undergrad What are the limits of particle accelerators?
- accdd
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Undergrad Zero spin of Higgs boson? Is it really zero?
- curiuousgoerge
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High School How can particles pop in and out of existence around muons?
- Simon Peach
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Graduate Is the weak interaction asymptotically free?
- HomogenousCow
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Graduate Does the Z boson pole show up in the photon propagator?
- springbottom
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Undergrad Can a Higgs boson decay into two top quarks off-shell?
- Malamala
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Graduate Lehmann Kallen and spectral representation
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Graduate Metastable vacuum and tunneling
- paralleltransport
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Graduate How do escape peaks from gamma rays occur in annihilation processes?
- Angelos K
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Undergrad What is the latest discovery in tetraquarks by LHCb?
- mfb
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Graduate Probability of U-235 fission happening
- NewPhysi
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Undergrad New Naming Rules for Exotic Hadrons at the LHC: LHCb Collaboration Paper (2022)
- ohwilleke
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Graduate Solving Problems in "Conformal Field Theories" by Francesco
- John Greger
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High School ETMC lattice results are closer to the measured muon g-2
- atyy
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Undergrad Are there currently working colliders with unequal beam sizes?
- Mikheal
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Undergrad Nuclear Fission of Uranium-235
- NewPhysi
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Undergrad What progress has been made in Belle II collisions at SuperKEKB in 2021?
- mfb
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Undergrad Nuclear Physics: Yearly Time Measurement
- Bertin
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Graduate First order electroweak correction to the g-2 magnetic moment
- dextercioby
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Undergrad Converting density unit ##MeV^4## to SI units
- Safinaz
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Undergrad Has photoproduction of gluons been observed?
- ohwilleke
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Undergrad Electron mass conversion during electron capture
- Anonymous324
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High School Why Ag 108 decays into Cd 108 most of the time?
- Anonymous324
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High School How many nuclear weapons are needed to make a wormhole?
- Dave Gungan
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High School Where Can I Find The New Daya Bay Results?
- ohwilleke
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Undergrad What happens to a gluon that does not have enough energy to hadronize?
- jimi
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Undergrad Ultra-high energy photon interactions with matter
- pervect
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High School The relationship between mass, light and energy
- alan123hk
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Undergrad What is the relationship between force and potential in particle interactions?
- Tim667
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Undergrad Does strong interaction CP violation have a unitarity triangle like the weak interaction?
- Ranku
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High School U235 Criticality: Neutron Capture and Alpha Emission
- Congrute
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High School Where can I buy a muon detector?
- Richardfossilman
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Graduate Atmospheric electron neutrinos
- Zuzana
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Graduate Wilson Coefficient Values for b->s l l in the Standard Model: What Do We Know?
- effrit
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Undergrad Energy reduction/deflection of beta particles due to isotope geometry
- Aakash Sunkari
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Graduate A Calculation of a Form Factor at large ##q^2##
- MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Why can't nuclear reactions burn the atmosphere
- Trollfaz
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Undergrad Neutrinoless double beta decay derivation
- Malamala
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Undergrad Understanding iris electrode and iris doublet (Accelerator physics)
- Wrichik Basu
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Undergrad Does the Higgs Field Consist of Higgs Bosons?
- PainterGuy
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Undergrad Is mass just a number?
- Anko
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Undergrad Electrons from Internal Conversion
- Zuzana
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High School Why are SU(3), SU(2) and U(1) groups used in the Standard Model?
- wasi-uz-zaman
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Graduate Any developments on the origin of mass by QCD?
- Kattenbach
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Graduate A paragraph in"Handbook of QCD" by Mueller
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Feynman parametrization integration by parts
- asmae
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High School Alpha Particles of Uranium 238
- On_A_Quest
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Undergrad Standard deviation and count rate
- Zuzana
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Undergrad Would a particle accelerator in deep space produce different results?
- Tayler
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Graduate Normalized differential cross section
- Anava1001
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High School Understanding Nuclear Fusion and Particle Interactions
- Thomas Rigby
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High School Are Electrons the Building Blocks of Our Universe?
- Rev. Cheeseman
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Graduate The Symmetry of Antiparticle Isospin Doublets in Particle Physics
- orochi
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Undergrad Why are all quarks considered fundamental?
- jfmcghee
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High School Where does the mass of a W boson come from in beta decay?
- Dario
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Graduate The Factorization Theorem in Particle Physics
- Elmo
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Graduate Why does the HQET vertex have a vμ factor?
- Elmo
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