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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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High School 200 MeV Energy: Potential and Destruction
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Graduate Are ForceFields a possibility?
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Graduate Charge Conservation & Mass-Energy Equivalence
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Graduate What happens to the electron neutrino post beta+ decay?
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Graduate Threshold, proton-proton-collision
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Graduate Will the fusion reactor ITER decrease entropy?
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Graduate Why we have 4-5% matter, given most m/anti-m annihilate to photons
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Graduate What happens when a neutral pion decays?
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Graduate What Do Peaks in Gamma Radiation Absorption Data Indicate?
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Graduate Alternative to making antimatter
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Graduate Deuterium vs Deuteron and Pauli Exclusion
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Graduate Feynman Parameters-Peskin&Schroeder 6.44
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Graduate Parton model and quark interaction in DIS.
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Graduate Does the Area Law Always Hold True in Lattice Gauge Models?
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Graduate Quark-antiquark creation in strong interactions
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Graduate Understanding the baryon wavefunction
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Undergrad What is the relationship between mass and energy according to E=MC^2?
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Undergrad Im not sure if this s the right category but
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Graduate What is w cut particle physics?
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Graduate Why is the Higgs field a scalar field?
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Graduate Why is thermal neutron with energy of 0.0253eV so important?
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Graduate What Part of the Wavefn Ensures Symmetry for Rho^0 and Pi^0 Bosons?
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Graduate Dirac spinor and antiparticles
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Graduate Fusion Terminology: Is it Fission or Fusion?
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Graduate Are nuclear batteries possible?
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Graduate And when not asympotic states?
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Graduate Applications of new physics which may be discovered at the LHC
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Graduate How is Parity Transformation Applied in the Dirac Equation?
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Graduate Radioactive nucleus - why is alpha emitted and not proton
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Graduate What has caused this panda-face in a cloud chamber ?
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Graduate Where Do the Two Electrons Go During Alpha Decay?
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Graduate Matter/antimmatter annihilation
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Graduate Mass defect and binding energy help
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Graduate Does the Higgs Field Become Tachyonic at Critical Temperatures?
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Graduate How can a photon have hadronic components?
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Graduate Methods of Particle Detection for Neutrinos in Particle Physics
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Graduate Is the Proton-Electron Theory Disproved by Experimental Evidence?
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Undergrad Derive relationship between radioactive constant and half life
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Graduate Speed of a tachyon increases as its energy decreases
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Graduate Dipole excitation response function - physical interpretation
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Graduate Neutron bombardment of paraffin
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Undergrad Plasma Preparation: Overview of Methods & Ease of Use
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High School Stop an Incoming Nuke: EMP Effect, Other Options
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Graduate Is Higgs boson exactly energy ?
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Graduate Neutrinos to probe nuclear structure?
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Graduate What is meaning of w in plasma permitivity,exactly?
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Graduate How can Helium 4 be a Boson and Helium 3 be a Fermion?
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Graduate Homology/Cohomology in Theoretical Particle Physics?
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Graduate The thermal activation cross section of H-3,C14
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Graduate What is the heat released from the decay of 1 kg of 40K atoms?
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Graduate Invariant symbol with four spinor indices
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Graduate Natural positron emitters
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Graduate Electron Capture vs Positron Emision
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Undergrad Discovering e/m Ratio: The J.J. Thomson Experiment Explained
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Graduate Higgsino at LHC, could it be seen?
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Graduate Question on photon-nucleus pair production
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Graduate Superluminal neutrinos now 'pseudoscience'?
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Graduate Changing the chirality of fermions in interactions with Higgs
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Graduate Modelling wavelike properties of a particle
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Graduate Can a 2m Linac Accelerate Electrons to 1.5MeV for Positron Production?
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Graduate Weak force coupling to left-handed particles
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Graduate How Is Neutrino Flux Calculated Through Earth?
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Graduate Can we calculate three-point correlation in lattice qcd
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Graduate Can hypernuclei with multiple strange quarks be formed and observed?
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Graduate Why are we looking for graviton particles
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Graduate Quantum Fields in Curved Space-times
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Graduate Understanding the W Boson: How are New W Bosons Created?
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High School Temp of Nitogen Plasma? (spark gap)
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High School Zee.csv Meaning on CERN Webpage - Stats Project Help
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Undergrad Explain crossing without invoking QFT?
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Undergrad Why is the strong Nuclear force the strongest?
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Graduate Lithium Dioxide Cold Fusion Reactor model, is it feasible?
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Graduate How to Calculate the Loop Function for Higgs Decay to Photons or Gluons?
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Graduate How does the Higgs field affect particles at normal energy levels?
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Graduate The concept of parity and it's significance
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Graduate Psuedoscalar Mesons - why is there an eta and an eta prime?
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Graduate Is Mirror Matter Still Considered a Viable Hypothesis Among Physicists?
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Graduate Why does the range of an inter. vary inv. w/ the mass of its mediator?
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Undergrad Find Nucleus Radius: Mass vs. Formula
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Graduate The Mystery of 8 Gluons: Uncovering the Secrets of Particle Physics
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Graduate Question on electron-positron scattering
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High School What to build for high school project?
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Graduate Weak Interaction-QED Interactions
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Graduate Does Carbon Dating Take into Account Organisms' Preference for Lighter Isotopes?
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Graduate Is Lithium-6 Deuteride a Legal and Efficient Hydrogen Storage Option?
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Undergrad Gamma-gamma coincidence spectrometry
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Graduate What happens to the gluon linking Quarks at time of formation of quark
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Graduate Tunneling to a lower energy vacuum state
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Graduate Can neutrinos cause Cherenkov radiation?
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Graduate Understanding the Intrinsic Parity of Quarks and Antiquarks
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Graduate What does it mean, The Higgs boson is an excitation of the higgs field
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Graduate Sign of the time derivative of the Majorana Lagrangian
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Graduate Building a Cyclotron: Learn, Ask and Find Equipment
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Graduate Higgs, neutrinos, and standard model status
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