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Graduate Can neutrinos cause Cherenkov radiation?
- Ralphonsicus
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Graduate Why does parity flip the antiquark wavefunction but not the quark?
- JoePhysicsNut
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Graduate What does it mean, The Higgs boson is an excitation of the higgs field
- silvercats
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Graduate Sign of the time derivative of the Majorana Lagrangian
- JustMeDK
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Graduate Building a Cyclotron: Learn, Ask and Find Equipment
- tachyon_man
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Graduate Higgs, neutrinos, and standard model status
- bsaucer
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Graduate Two easy questions for particle physicists
- metroplex021
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Graduate Converting photon self-energy to momentum space
- PineApple2
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Graduate Do Particle-Antiparticle Annihilations Emit Detectable X-rays in Space?
- PhyHunter
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Graduate What experimental evidence exists for string theory?
- huhjinsoo
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High School Top strange bottom charm quark
- huhjinsoo
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Graduate Dimensional analysis of the fermion mass renormalization
- phypar
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Undergrad How to test for radium contamination in rooms and bodies
- mcriv880
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Graduate Accelerator size and probe scale relationship?
- C10
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Graduate Are superconducting galvanic cells possible?
- Bohr'nReady
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Graduate What is a neutron? (if not an electron inside a proton)
- davidyanni10
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Graduate Convention for italicizing particle symbols
- Mithra
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Graduate Understanding Colour Octet States in SU(3) Transformations
- Sekonda
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Graduate Spin of Particle and Antiparticle: Same or Different?
- stjimmee
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Graduate How to change and detect electron spin orientation
- kaseron
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Graduate How Are Positrons Created in Particle Accelerators?
- tinypositrons
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Graduate Pair-production - how come it's always e+e-, never muons or tauons?
- Doofy
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Graduate Ionizing Radiation in a Cloud Chamber
- rkum99
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Graduate Why is the Klein-Nishina formula so difficult to prove?
- M. next
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Graduate Why Higgs produces different masses for electron and muon
- bcrowell
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Graduate Higgs - interactions and forces; distinction between these?
- Paulibus
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Graduate Is the particle discovered at CERN the Higgs boson?
- Demystifier
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Graduate How do cations striking the cathode produce detectable current in a Penning gauge?
- terryphi
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Graduate Where to start learning about the Higgs boson and mass
- Beer w/Straw
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Undergrad Generating Energy with Plutonium: 2kW Requirement
- Numeriprimi
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Graduate Antimatter colliding with matter
- BMW
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Graduate How do mesons not self-destruct?
- tinypositrons
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Graduate Are fundermental particles failed universes?
- brianhurren
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Graduate Identification of radiation source from gamma spectrum peaks.
- wsomma
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Graduate Antineutrons, protons, electrons
- dayglo
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Graduate What is the diference between right handed neutrinos And quarks?
- the_pulp
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Graduate Why is parity maximally violated in Wu's experiment but conserved in nuclear β-decay?
- JoePhysicsNut
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Graduate Boltzmann distribution for particle energy
- Alfred Cann
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Graduate Fermi energy of nucleus
- gildomar
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Graduate Simple group theory vocabulary issue
- JoePhysicsNut
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Graduate How big is the standard model?
- the_pulp
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Graduate Question on whether positron/Down Quark can be fused.
- 42supernerd
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High School Why do some radioactive elements emit a green glow?
- SUDOnym
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Graduate New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson
- Drakkith
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Graduate Neutral pseudo meson decay into neutrino antineutrino
- shakeel
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Graduate Why quarks' wave functions are eigenstates of I and Iz
- LayMuon
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Graduate Why does χᵀεχ = 0 in the Majorana mass term?
- phypar
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Graduate Difference between continuum and Planck-scale lattice limits
- anorlunda
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Graduate Luminosity, Intensity and flux
- shakeel
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Graduate Is There a Relationship Between Phase Space and Entropy in Particle Decay?
- shakeel
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Graduate Global Symmetries: Understanding ##T^a##s and (1.10)
- rbwang1225
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Graduate Magnitude of Fissile Element at the Order of a Neutron.
- nucerl
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Graduate How do you combine the strong and weak force equations mathematically?
- Anik Azad
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Graduate Can Plasma Be Polarized and How Does It Interact with Electric Currents?
- KingofSpace
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Graduate Why are the same particles produced in collisions every time?
- JamesClarke
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Graduate Holes=positrons in the Dirac Sea?
- anorlunda
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Graduate Axial current matrix element for pseudoscalar mesons
- Nixom
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Undergrad Identifying trails in a Cloud Chamber
- Sweeney
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Graduate Elementary/irreducible particles
- coktail
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Graduate Energy Reconstruction in Gamma Spectroscopy
- Cmertin
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Graduate Why did we search for higgs boson when we knew it couldn't be useful?
- Negeng
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Graduate Electron as a solution to Maxwell's Eqns
- msumm21
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Graduate How the 3 atoms of Ununoctium were produced?
- tsuwal
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Graduate What are classons and weakons particles?
- aemla
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Graduate Energy-mass equiliance and mass defect
- nickek
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Graduate What are the SU(3) structure constants and how can they be calculated?
- Safinaz
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Graduate H -> W+W- -> e+e- Why are the electron/positron collimated?
- Mithra
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Graduate Statement about Forbidden Alpha decay transitions.
- Silversonic
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Graduate Thesis topic: Lie groups and Lie algebras in nuclear and particle physics
- abs.manik
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Undergrad How do I determine the half life of an alpha particle?
- Galactonaut
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Graduate Do ITER test blanket modules surround the full plasma or just sections?
- fys iks!
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Undergrad Why is the speed of light a constant in relativity?
- John Cox
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Graduate My dilemma with protons/antiprotons and neutrons/antineutrons
- marshallmeyer1
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Graduate Why does π⁰ have G-parity −1 if its isospin state is |1,0⟩?
- copernicus1
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Graduate Energy dissipated by a nuclear fission
- jaumzaum
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Graduate Does the Widom-Larsen weak interaction theory explain low energy nuclear reactions?
- phyzguy
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Graduate Why do nuclei like Uranium and Thorium have such long half lives?
- iced199
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Graduate Explanation of quadratic divergence in higgs mechanism
- pleasehelpmeno
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Graduate Decay rate and lifetime of Z Boson
- yeveat
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Graduate How Do Quark Spin States Influence Particle Symmetry and Identification?
- Gregg
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Graduate What properties distinguish a particle from its antiparticle?
- ShayanJ
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Undergrad Dark matter, electron-positron
- Crazymechanic
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Graduate Why the Casimir operator is proportional to the unit matrix ?
- Wonchu
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Graduate Is spin one still possible for the Higgs?
- John le Roy
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Graduate Bethe formula Bragg curve not peaking in Excel spreadsheet
- Moho
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Graduate Is Information Preserved in Annihilation Processes?
- Bone
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Undergrad Duration of Radioactive Contamination
- SilverStud
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Graduate 2 dimensional chiral boson theory
- rbwang1225
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Graduate How is the error in the expanded equation (9) identified and resolved?
- Forhad3097
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Graduate Can We Create Elements Higher Than Helium in a Terrestrial Fusion Reactor?
- vemvare
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Graduate Is the Higgs Mass Linked to Vacuum Instability?
- bcrowell
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Graduate Variation in radioactive decay rates
- leonr@shaw.ca
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Graduate Does mass increase as objects approach light speed in special relativity?
- Ralphonsicus
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Graduate How can a neutral pion be a superposition of quark states?
- dEdt
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Graduate Higgs Boson = Universe is False Vacuum?
- Jarwulf
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Graduate Bosons are the glue that hold fermions together
- g.lemaitre
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Graduate Notation confusion; |\pi N; I, I_3> states
- Gregg
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Undergrad How to do local Physics Analysis ?
- welatiger
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Graduate How to maintain CPT invariance in Kaon oscillations
- SteDolan
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Graduate Gravity affects quarks at the Planck length and Planck energy
- g.lemaitre
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