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Graduate Is the Higgs Boson the Key to Understanding Particle Travel Velocity?
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Graduate Is Bombarding Ir 193 with Alpha Particles to Create Au 197 Possible?
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Undergrad Where to find an alpha radiation silicon detector? (alpha spectroscopy)
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Graduate Polarization and helicity states
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Graduate Build Positron Accelerator | Safety Tips & Experiments
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Graduate Comparing D0 Decay Rates: K(-) + (pi)(+) vs. K(-) + e(+) + (v_e)
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Graduate Playing with NEUTRONS. Neutrons thought experiments.
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Graduate Mass of the proton with massless quarks?
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Graduate How can we measure the mass of quarks?
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Undergrad Can Atoms Truly Fuse Upon Contact?
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Graduate Rho(0) Meson Decay: Forces & Strengths
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Graduate Understanding Quark-Gluon Interactions: Deciphering Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Relation between particle spin with gradient
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Graduate Graviton or Higgs Boson: Which Explains the Origin of Gravity?
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Graduate Why do particles decay and what processes are involved?
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Graduate How Much Power Is Needed to Create Plasma with Copper Electrodes and Ceramic?
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Graduate Questions about the higgs boson.
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Graduate Drell Yan Process: Gamma-Star, Z, and W Mediators
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Graduate Isospin Asymmetry in Nuclear Matter
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Graduate Could Tamar Friedmann's New Interpretation Revolutionize QCD Understanding?
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Graduate When a particle can be a wave
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Undergrad What is Nuclear Binding Energy and How Does it Relate to Mass Defect?
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Graduate Narrow Width Approximation for a spin 1 resonance
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Undergrad Trying to understand causes and effects of nuclear reactions and radioactivity
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Graduate Classical electroweak field theory
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Graduate Quantifying the statistical error in a counting experiment
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Graduate Symmetries in Sidney Colemans QFT script
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Graduate : solenoid and superconductor questions
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Graduate Exploring the Relationship between Density and Muon in Bohr's Model
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Graduate The Incredible Shrinking Proton
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Undergrad Can Protons Travel as Rays in Space?
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High School Field Lines in TOKAMAK: Pictures & How to Understand
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Graduate Why do some unexpected isotopes occur naturally?
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Graduate Quark Confinement and the discovery of quarks
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Graduate Helmholtz coil based air thruster?
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Graduate Average Fermion Current: Understanding the Relation to Background Fermions
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Graduate Earth-Shattering Discovery: Proton Size
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Undergrad What are the fundamental properties of matter?
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Graduate Can we truly destroy a proton or nucleon?
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High School Does Beta Minus Decay Make an Atom an Ion?
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Graduate Lepton Universality: Branching Ratios & Cross Sections
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Graduate What is the Matter with Matter?
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Graduate What Formula Should I Use to Calculate Hydrogen Plasma Resistivity at 1 keV?
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Graduate Z-Boson reasonance and the number of neutrino varieties
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Graduate Least energy required for creation of a fundamental particle
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Graduate How much energy is lost due to neutrinos in matter-antimatter reaction ?
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Graduate Neutron Decay in Neutron Stars: Gravity or Half-Life?
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Undergrad Nuclear Binding Energy (wikipedia is confusing)
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Graduate Particle energies after beta decay in different frames
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Graduate Creation of a fundamental particle
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Graduate Pseudoscalars and pseudovectors
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Graduate Nucleon Constituents: Virtual Quark Types
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Graduate Irreducible representation of tensor field
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Graduate Do Quarks Emit Photons Like Gluons?
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Graduate Unpacking Nuclear Fission: Understanding Binding Energy
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Graduate QED perturbation series convergence versus exact solutions
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Graduate Do baryons only decay via the weak force?
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Graduate Why Does Z Boson Only Decay to Fermion-Antifermion Pairs?
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Graduate Is Element Transmutation Through Fusion or Fission Feasible?
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High School Schamatics for rutherfords experiment
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Graduate Pions vs. Fermi Dirac Statistics and Bose-Einstein Statistics
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Graduate Decay and Atoms: Calculating Mo-99 Requirements at Equilibrium - 1x10^9 Atoms"
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Undergrad How Does Uranium-238 Capture Neutrons and What Happens After?
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Graduate Question-Rant on Hydrogen to Helium Fusion, and Proton to Neutron Conversion
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Graduate The lifetime of an unstable nucleus
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High School Particle Decay Order for Beginners
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Graduate Photon-Photon Interactions: What Determines Pair Production vs. Scattering?
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Undergrad All baryons eventually decay into protons, is this the same with anti-bayrons?
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Graduate Feynman Diagram for Electron-Proton Attraction
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Graduate Understanding a p-p collision qualitatively
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Graduate Feynman diagrams from Quarks and Leptons Halzen and Martin?
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Undergrad What is the Standard Model and How Does it Predict Missing Links in Physics?
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Graduate How is Antimatter Produced and Used in Particle Accelerators?
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Graduate Do ALL hadrons eventually decay into protons?
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Graduate Hadronic Electrons (Wolfram article, 1975)
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Graduate A little problem with charge operator
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Graduate Negative temperatures , BELOW 0 Kelvin?-Confirmation please
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Graduate Do Bosons Sharing Space Imply Extra Dimensions?
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Graduate Detection of neutrinos from nuclear reactors vs. ambient neutrino noise
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Graduate Parton distribution functions plot axes
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Graduate Collisions involving multiple particles
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Graduate Quantitative Measurements for the Higgs Boson
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High School Can Plasma from Neon Tubes Create a Plasma Jet?
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Undergrad Any reference on Fermi's contribution to nuclear physics?
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Undergrad Can someone explain how pair production happens?
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Graduate Max Temperature: What's the Limit?
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Graduate Why Do Neutrinos and Anti-Neutrinos Oscillate Differently?
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Undergrad Why is long-lived radioative waste dangerous?
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Graduate Potential Alpha source material
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Graduate Why the Neutrino oscillates and the electron doesn't?
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Graduate Physical significance of gauge invariance
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Graduate Soft gluons and colinear gluons
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Graduate If bosons don't interact, then how can gravity affect the path of light?
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Graduate Irreducible representations of the Lorentz group
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Graduate Confused about why beta plus decay happens
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Graduate Can neutral antihydrogen be stored using magnetic fields?
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Graduate Vertex Feynman Rule Derivations
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Graduate Renormalised Mass and the Higgs Boson
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Graduate Requirements for Magnetic Plasma-ization?
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Undergrad How does magnetic fusion work?
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