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Undergrad Testing for Radium: Rooms & Bodies
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Graduate Accelerator size and probe scale relationship?
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Graduate Are superconducting galvanic cells possible?
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Graduate What is a neutron? (if not an electron inside a proton)
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Graduate Convention for italicizing particle symbols
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Graduate Understanding Colour Octet States in SU(3) Transformations
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Graduate Spin of Particle and Antiparticle: Same or Different?
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Graduate Changing Particle Spin: How to Change & Detect Orientation
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Graduate How Are Positrons Created in Particle Accelerators?
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Graduate Pair-production - how come it's always e+e-, never muons or tauons?
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Graduate Ionizing Radiation in a Cloud Chamber
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Graduate Klein Nishina Formula: History, Importance & Proving
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Graduate Why Higgs produces different masses for electron and muon
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Graduate Higgs - interactions and forces; distinction between these?
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Graduate Confirmed: Higgs Particle Discovered at CERN
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Graduate Detecting Cations: Understanding the Role of Ion Discharge in Penning Gauges
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Graduate What is the significance of the Higgs Boson in understanding the universe?
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Undergrad Generating Energy with Plutonium: 2kW Requirement
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Graduate Antimatter colliding with matter
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Graduate How do mesons not self-destruct?
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Graduate Are fundermental particles failed universes?
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Graduate Identification of radiation source from gamma spectrum peaks.
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Graduate Antineutrons, protons, electrons
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Graduate What is the diference between right handed neutrinos And quarks?
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Graduate Parity violation in weak decays
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Graduate Boltzmann distribution for particle energy
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Graduate Fermi energy of nucleus
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Graduate Simple group theory vocabulary issue
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Graduate How big is the standard model?
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Graduate Question on whether positron/Down Quark can be fused.
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High School Why do some radioactive elements emit a green glow?
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Graduate New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson
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Graduate Neutral pseudo meson decay into neutrino antineutrino
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Graduate Why quarks' wave functions are eigenstates of I and Iz
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Graduate Question about the Majorana mass term
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Graduate Can Lattice Size Changes Reveal the Quantization of Space-Time?
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Graduate Luminosity, Intensity and flux
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Graduate Is There a Relationship Between Phase Space and Entropy in Particle Decay?
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Graduate Global Symmetries: Understanding ##T^a##s and (1.10)
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Graduate Magnitude of Fissile Element at the Order of a Neutron.
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Graduate Particle Physics: Strong & Weak Force Equations & Math
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Graduate Can Plasma Be Polarized and How Does It Interact with Electric Currents?
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Graduate Question about the number of particles in the standard model.
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Graduate Holes=positrons in the Dirac Sea?
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Graduate Question about the matrix of vacuum to meson
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Undergrad Identifying trails in a Cloud Chamber
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Graduate Elementary/irreducible particles
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Graduate Energy Reconstruction in Gamma Spectroscopy
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Graduate Why did we search for higgs boson when we knew it couldn't be useful?
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Graduate Electron as a solution to Maxwell's Eqns
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Graduate How the 3 atoms of Ununoctium were produced?
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Graduate What are classons and weakons particles?
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Graduate Energy-mass equiliance and mass defect
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Graduate What are the SU(3) structure constants and how can they be calculated?
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Graduate H -> W+W- -> e+e- Why are the electron/positron collimated?
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Graduate Statement about Forbidden Alpha decay transitions.
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Graduate Lie groups & Lie Algebras in Nuclear & Particle Physics
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Undergrad How do I determine the half life of an alpha particle?
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Graduate ITER Test Blanket Modules: Design & Purpose
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Undergrad Why is the speed of light a constant in relativity?
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Graduate My dilemma with protons/antiprotons and neutrons/antineutrons
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Graduate Understanding the G- and C-parity of the pi^0 decay
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Graduate Energy dissipated by a nuclear fission
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Graduate NASA's LENR: Weak Interaction Theory, Peer-Reviewed Publications & Evidence
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Graduate Why do nuclei like Uranium and Thorium have such long half lives?
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Graduate Explanation of quadratic divergence in higgs mechanism
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Graduate Decay rate and lifetime of Z Boson
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Graduate How Do Quark Spin States Influence Particle Symmetry and Identification?
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Graduate Understanding the Differences Between Particles and Antiparticles
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Undergrad Dark matter, electron-positron
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Graduate Why the Casimir operator is proportional to the unit matrix ?
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Graduate Is spin one still possible for the Higgs?
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Graduate Numerical integration of Bethe formula in Excel: help
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Graduate Is Information Preserved in Annihilation Processes?
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Undergrad Duration of Radioactive Contamination
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Graduate 2 dimensional chiral boson theory
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Graduate How is the error in the expanded equation (9) identified and resolved?
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Graduate Can We Create Elements Higher Than Helium in a Terrestrial Fusion Reactor?
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Graduate Is the Higgs Mass Linked to Vacuum Instability?
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Graduate Variation in radioactive decay rates
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Mass Gain in Special Relativity
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Graduate Understanding Neutral Pions: Superpositions, Particles, & Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Higgs Boson = Universe is False Vacuum?
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Graduate Bosons are the glue that hold fermions together
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Graduate Notation confusion; |\pi N; I, I_3> states
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Undergrad How to do local Physics Analysis ?
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Graduate How to maintain CPT invariance in Kaon oscillations
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Graduate Gravity affects quarks at the Planck length and Planck energy
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Graduate Regarding the Clifford algebra and spinors
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Graduate How Do Gravitons Facilitate Interaction Between Mass Particles?
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Undergrad Can we determine the NK nuclear detonation strength?
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Undergrad Relationship between dose rate and amount of radioactive particles
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Graduate How do gravitons mediate the force of gravitation in universe ?
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Graduate Total Angular Momentum of Circularly Polarised Light
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Graduate Fedor Ignatov & Korbely Todyshev: New Physics Theory Explained
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Graduate Two reacting nuclei, maximum distance to overcome the coulomb barrier
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Graduate What is the significance of parity in particle physics?
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Graduate Does Antimatter Repel Matter Due to CPT Symmetry?
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Undergrad What is the relationship between mass and energy according to E=mc^2?
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Graduate What is the role of photon-photon collisions in the creation of the universe?
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