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High School Can a muon entering a lithium battery trigger spontaneous combustion?

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Graduate Lagrangian density for the spinor fields

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High School Is the Standard Model overfitted?

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High School Thinking about a calendar epoch based on the field of physics

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Undergrad What is the meaning of 'CP violation' in the Cronin and Fitch experiment?

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High School Why do photons get blocked while neutrinos pass through matter?

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High School Sabine Hossenfelder on the search for new particles

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Undergrad Proton electric polarizability and structure (recent measurement)

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Undergrad GM tube and dual probe scintillator

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High School Deuterium combustion within inertial fusion schemes

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Undergrad Incorrect units when calculating cosmic ray muon flux

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Undergrad Separation of Plasma into positive nucleus and negative electrons

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Undergrad Multi-GeV Electron Bunches from All-Optical Laser Wakefield Accelerator

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Undergrad Speed faster than light speed in a medium

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Undergrad LHC Restarts in 2022 - Live Updates

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Graduate Conversion of millicuries to Kilograys (?)

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Undergrad 7Li(p,e+e−)8Be direct proton-capture reaction X17

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Undergrad How does particle exchange distinguish attraction from repulsion?

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Undergrad Field fluctuations in the vacuum

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Graduate Antiproton reactions with water

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High School How do alpha particles interact with electrons in gold foil experiments?

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Graduate How making the ions leave the cavity in a ion sources

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High School How can a superconductor be used to detect monopoles?

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High School Why does parity give raise to pseudovectors?

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High School Is there an experiment that shows strong force grows with distance?

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High School Do Alternative Explanations for Gluons Exist and How Can We Test Them?

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Undergrad Krauss's interpretation of gauge theory

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Undergrad Does the property "equal charges repel" still work for non abelian theories?

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Undergrad LHCb discovers pentaquarks and tetraquarks

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High School How do we prove electrons exist beyond matching observations?

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Graduate No CP-Violation for coinciding Quark-Masses

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High School How did quarks appear in the Universe?

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Undergrad Would higher-mass quarks result in smaller baryons?

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Graduate What are the different types of long-lived hadrons and their properties?

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Graduate Penetration depth of a ion beam coupled with an EM wave

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Graduate What experiments could help measure light quark masses more precisely?

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Undergrad Does K-40 Capture Electrons With Orbital Angular Momentum?

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Undergrad Seminar: First LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search results

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Graduate How Are SU(2) and U(1) Representations Combined in Particle Physics?

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High School Dark matter, Higgs boson, gravity

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Undergrad Four neutrons form a transient isolated entity - a tetraneutron?

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Undergrad Strange Star Physics: Existence of Baryons?

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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 How can particles pop in and out of existence around muons?

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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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Graduate How do escape peaks from gamma rays occur in annihilation processes?

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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

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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 What progress has been made in Belle II collisions at SuperKEKB in 2021?

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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 How many nuclear weapons are needed to make a wormhole?

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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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High School The relationship between mass, light and energy

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Undergrad What is the relationship between force and potential in particle interactions?

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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?

  • 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?

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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 Understanding iris electrode and iris doublet (Accelerator physics)

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Undergrad Does the Higgs Field Consist of Higgs Bosons?

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Undergrad Is mass just a number?

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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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Graduate Feynman parametrization integration by parts

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High School Alpha Particles of Uranium 238

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Undergrad Standard deviation and count rate

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Undergrad Would a particle accelerator in deep space produce different results?

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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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High School Are Electrons the Building Blocks of Our Universe?

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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 Why does the HQET vertex have a vμ factor?

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