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Graduate Why Does Higgs Production Cross Section Calculation Differ from Expected Values?
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Undergrad Where does the energy come from
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Graduate LHC Sim: Hydrogen Atoms & Quark Charges
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High School Is the part I bought from a Soviet Nuclear Sub radioactive?
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Undergrad Why Does Alpha Decay Emit a Helium Nucleus Instead of Protons or Gamma Rays?
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Undergrad Any infinitesimally small particles?
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Graduate What is the relationship between energy powers and decay widths in Muon decay?
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Graduate Ionization driven phase change
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Graduate Are Cosmic Rays Impacting the LHC Measurements Beyond Muons?
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Undergrad Simple particles simulation (gravity)
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Graduate How is the Variance in Particle Number Derived?
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Graduate Are all elementary particles point particles?
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Graduate Two Questions: Yukawa Potential and Weak Force
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Graduate Why nuclear radiations occur in atoms with large nucleus?
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Graduate Boosting Nuclei Spin: The Role of Angular Momentum & Circularly-Polarized Light
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High School Relative Size Of Electro-Magnetic Spectrum
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Graduate Why annihilation of matter/antimatter occurs in dual pairs?
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Undergrad What are the highest energy neutrinos moving near earth?
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Graduate Question about angular muon flux
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Graduate Storing Antimatter: Possibility of Containment and Current Research
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Graduate Meaning of Scale of an events/process in MonteCarlo
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Graduate Why is mass additive in the context of the Higgs boson?
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High School Beta Decay<=>Positron emission
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Graduate (Simple) Derivation of Yang-Mills Equations
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Graduate Could anyone help me to recognize the Atlas results?
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Graduate Symmetry violation in the early universe - a book
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Graduate If two masses come togther, what is the resultant mass?
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Graduate Can Elementary Particles be related with irreducible representation?
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Graduate Why does the cross section drop between resonances?
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Graduate What Happens When Higgs Bosons Interact?
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Graduate Monte Carlo in high energy physics
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Graduate Why is the W cross section so much larger than the Z cross section?
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Undergrad How the nuclear binding energy gives mass to the nucleus?
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Graduate Are Muons and Tauons Higher-Dimensional KK Modes?
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Undergrad Magnetic field is made of photons?
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Graduate Can CP violation in kaon decays explain the dominance of matter over antimatter?
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Graduate Difference in thermal n cross section for Be-9 and B-10
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Graduate LHC and seeing (simulating) particles
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Graduate Understanding Antimatter Annihilation: Levels and Possibilities"
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Graduate In-flight neutron capture by Cobalt-59
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Graduate Necessity of Group Theory in Particle Physics
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Graduate Pseudoscalar Matrix Elements and Parity Transformation Behavior
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Graduate Right handed neutrino identity
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Graduate Decay analysis of Ra226 with Bi-214
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Graduate Destruction of virtual particles and virtual particle pairs
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Graduate Can G-Parity Explain the Dominance of Vector Current in Tau Decay?
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Undergrad What Is the Best Source for a Comprehensive List of Particle Half-Lives?
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Graduate Has anyone experimentally measured the Lamb shift in Antihydrogen?
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Graduate How can we be certain that particles such as quarks and leptons are in
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Graduate Why is weak nuclear bosons carry the isospin charge?
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Undergrad Understanding Alpha Decay: Beyond Quantum Tunneling
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Graduate What Is the Newly Discovered Zc(3900) Particle?
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Graduate Deriving Srednicki eqn. (9.19)
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Graduate Is the potential barrier of a nucleus related to its binding energy and size?
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Graduate Weak Force - in what sense is it a force?
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Undergrad Mass Needed to Convert to Energy & Blow Up Earth?
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Graduate Is Cs-137 Effective for Calibrating Vintage Geiger Counters?
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Undergrad Energy requirements of sustaining plasma vs first ionizing it.
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Graduate Find n(Ni) in Decay Chain with Single Equation
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Graduate Can Electricity Alone Convert Energy into Matter Like in Star Trek?
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Graduate DM candidate anapole Majorana fermion
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Graduate What was the reaction for pion production during the observation of antiprotons?
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Graduate What is the strength of the strong force?
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Graduate Was the mass of the Higgs given at 125.8?
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Graduate Dirac trace in D dimension with gamma_5
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Undergrad Problem with units when using E=hv
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Graduate What are the disconnected Feynman diagrams in QFT?
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Graduate Helicity interactions of the Z0
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Graduate Contact interaction in Lagrangians
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Undergrad Cyclotron: Why Electric Field Inside Dees is Zero
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Graduate Is it possible to build atoms?
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Graduate Are particle-antiparticle pairs really one particle looping in time?
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Graduate Why Are The Laws of Physics Not Symmetrical Between Left and Right?
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Graduate Total energy of the system when two gravitating particles are
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Graduate Matter vs Antimatter: What Happens When They Collide?
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Graduate Handedness of neutrinos and antineutrinos
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Graduate Definition of effective QED coupling.
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Graduate Is the higgs boson necessary for particles to exist.
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Graduate Why would some particles not interact through the strong force?
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Graduate Where can I find technical papers on the Majorana particle?
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Graduate Question about particle physics in general
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Graduate Deuterium + Antideuterium Annihilation
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Graduate High energy neutrino telescopes
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Undergrad Half-Life Formula: Is It Possible?
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Graduate Does the electroweak force change quark flavor
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Graduate What is the relationship between scalar fields and tensor fields?
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Graduate The possibility of IEC and Earnshaw's theorem
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Undergrad Something different; Tobacco and Polonium.
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Graduate Anti-Matter Falling Speed - Experiments & Results
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Graduate Creating Antiquarks: Experiments & Techniques
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Graduate Neutral pion decay: JPC conservation
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Graduate Can a High Pressure, Low Temperature Plasma be Self-Sustaining?
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Graduate Why 2 photons are formed from positron-electron annihilation at rest
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High School Is this plasma (picture in thread)
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Graduate What is an effective field theory?
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Undergrad Can a Decay Constant be bigger than 1?
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Graduate Why Only Protons were selected for collision in LHC project?
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Graduate A question on particle-antiparticle chirality.
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Graduate Difference between J/Psi and its excited states
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Undergrad Signal Injection Test: What, How, & Expectations
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