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Graduate What gives the Higgs boson its mass?
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Graduate Higgs boson's mechanism for giving mass?
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Undergrad Where Does Certainty in Radioactive Decay Come From?
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Graduate Does the nucleus of atoms of noble gases vibrate and emit E.M wave
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Graduate Delta++ Rest Mass: Explaining Its Greater Rest Mass Than Proton
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Graduate Analogy for magnetism in the nuclear strong force?
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Graduate Lack of stability after radiation
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Graduate How do W and Z particles conserve energy?
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Graduate Why was the LHC required to find the Higgs?
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Graduate Making atoms out of their building blocks (p,n,e-)
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Graduate What exactly makes Mesons unstable?
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Graduate Controlling Nuclear Fission Geometry
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery: Higgs Decay Modes and the Weight Paradox
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Graduate Is There an Upper Limit to the Density of Quark-Gluon Plasma?
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Graduate Analyzing Assumptions for Neutron Flux: Fast & Thermal Groups
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Graduate Do spin-1 particles also have phase symmetry?
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Graduate QFT Nonlinearity: Interactions & Maxwell's Eqns
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Graduate Elementary question on Moller Scattering Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Is the decay of the pi0 meson primarily due to electromagnetic interactions?
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Graduate [Nuclear Rocket]Idea to increase Isp and thrust of nuclear rocket
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Graduate Coincidence Events: Understanding the Basics
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Graduate Why can't neutrinos be brought to rest?
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Graduate Can Scientists Synthesize Element 120?
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Undergrad Why is Cobalt-60 Radioactive with an n/p Ratio of 1.22?
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Graduate Can Black Holes Be Stabilized to Prevent Decay?
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Graduate Gauge fields - how many physical degrees of freedom?
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Graduate Beta-Decay Energy: Li-11 Q=20 MeV & Calculations
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Undergrad Making Heavy Elements: Can Plutonium Be Made Naturally?
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Undergrad Nuclear Binding Energy Confusion
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Graduate Moderation of Fast moving thermal neutron
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Is Particle Fever the documentary that reveals the secrets of the Higgs boson?
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Graduate Gauge eigenstates vs. Mass eigenstates
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Graduate Investigating Return Current from Electron Beam in Plasma
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Graduate Interaction of radiation with matter
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Graduate Any weakly right-handed protons?
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Graduate What Causes a Neutron to Eject an Electron?
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Graduate Interacting Photons at Planck Energy: What are the Properties and Possibilities?
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Graduate Determining the value of B1 (or RF) in NMR
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Undergrad Strong & Weak Forces: Role in Atom Architecture
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Graduate How to detect neutrons using Helium 3
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Graduate Which interaction does the Higgs field rely on?
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High School Clarifying the Basics of the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
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Graduate Understanding Spin and Color States in Particle Dynamics
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Graduate Connect an ideal battery across two end of a superconductor?
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Graduate Accelerating Particle: Proton Transformations
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Graduate Mass and spin under acceleration
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Graduate Does the photon have direct interactions with the weak force?
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Graduate Elementary particles pre-Higgs coupling
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Graduate Understanding Gamma-Ray Decay Spin Rules
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Graduate Rotational exited states spin and parity
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Graduate Calculating the Nuclear Strong Force?
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Graduate Quark Model Spectroscopic Notation
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Graduate Mass invarint of ttbar pair by Pythia
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Graduate (Philosophical?) Question on effective field theories
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Graduate Learn Wigner Rotation, Tensor Operator & Two-Particle Helicity State
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Graduate Why do neutrinos always have a specific flavor when detected?
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Graduate What is the significance of the first e+e- narrow resonance discovery?
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Graduate Something weird with my Kurie-Plot (Beta Spectroscopy)
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Graduate Alpha particle confinement question
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Graduate Higgs Mechanism, how does it work?
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Graduate Classification of Elastic and Inelastic scattering
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Graduate On QFT, dimensionality and regularization
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Graduate Electromagnetic radiation and Flaw of De-Broglie Equation
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Symmetry Groups in Physics
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Graduate What is the Composition of Elementary Particles and Light?
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Graduate What is the design of the Bussard Polywell reactor's helium exhaust system?
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Graduate Theories out there that view time as a particle?
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Graduate Is the concept of binding energy in nuclear reactions contradictory?
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Graduate Nuclear fusion- Is this right?
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Undergrad Clarification in the definition of particle
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Graduate Coupling constants, units and measurements
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Graduate Fusion Product Mass: The Impact of Gravity on End Products in a Closed Container
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Graduate Principle of least action used to predict particle movement?
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Graduate What is the size of elementary particles?
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Graduate Photons and the Doppler effect
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Graduate Hard-point Particle: Hamiltonian Explained
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Graduate Ionized particle path , forces etc.
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Graduate Red quark going to a red quark via an gluon emission
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Graduate What is the percentage of useful energy that we get from antimatter ?
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Graduate Positron cross section with H,D,T
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Graduate Gamma spectroscopy regarding Cs-137
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Graduate Beta plus decay: mass balance?
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Graduate Deviation from Standard Model observed at LHCb (B->K* mu mu)
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Graduate How different would matter-antimatter explosion be compared to nuclear
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Graduate Are particle masses commonly normalized against a natural standard?
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Graduate Why Do Nuclear Mass and Charge Distributions Follow the Same Function?
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Graduate How do we identify one particular particle that moves ?
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Graduate List of matrix elements or Feynman diagrams
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Graduate Antimater anhilation rate on macroscopic scales
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Graduate What Happens When Helium and Anti-Hydrogen Interact?
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Graduate Are there any correlations between nuclear fusion and atomic structures?
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Graduate Can the force of gravity ever be measured on a single particle?
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Graduate What is the Island of Stability in Nuclear Physics?
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Undergrad How Do I Start Using MAD-X Software for Particle Accelerator Simulations?
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Graduate Has proton-proton fusion ever been observed in the lab?
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Graduate Nuclear Physics(Semi Empirical Mass Formula)
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Undergrad Measuring the momentum of a charged particle
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Graduate What are the force laws for the strong and weak nuclear forces?
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Graduate Photon Decay: Can High Energy Photons Transform?
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Graduate Can Higgs experiment give other new particles
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