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Graduate Why doesn't charge need the equivalent of a Higgs boson?

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Graduate Fission of Uranium-235: Deciding Outcomes & Isomers

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Graduate How can elementary particles spontaneously decay?

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Graduate Does the Higgs mechanism relate to gravity through warping of spacetime?

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Graduate Does Fermi's golden rule require infinite collision time for energy conservation?

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Graduate Derivation of the Higgs mass equation?

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Graduate Concept behind mass renormalization

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Graduate Consequences of collision between 2 particles ~ 1/2 the mass of the universe?

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Graduate Thermodynamics of the Higg's Mechanism

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Graduate QCD gluon propagator in axial gauge, polarization sum

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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Proton Mass: The Role of Quarks and Gluons

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Undergrad Calculating Cross Sections from Events + Luminosity

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Graduate Standard Model Mathematical Representation

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Graduate Neutrino detection in super kamiokande

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Graduate Uncertainty relations orthogonal to high-energy probe direction

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Graduate Why are magnetic monopoles so heavy?

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Undergrad Xenon Gas Pricing and Safety Concerns

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Undergrad Why is Americum more expensive than Uranium?

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Graduate Difference between the Higgs boson and graviton?

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Graduate Why is iron-56 the most stable nuclei?

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Graduate Feynman diagramms for Photoelectric, Compton, Pair Production

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Graduate Helicity of the positron in zero mass limit

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Graduate Why we must demonstrate the electroweak theory to be renormalizable?

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Graduate Readily-available radioisotope heat source for a Stirling engine?

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Undergrad Particle Beam Simulation Service

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Graduate Higgs boson and metastable universe

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Graduate Supersymmetry and Fusion Catalysis

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Graduate Sn126 Decay Scheme: Gamma and Beta Emissions

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Graduate Why Does the Sokolov-Ternov Effect Favor Higher Energy Spin States?

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Undergrad How much energy does it take to make plasma?

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Graduate Can anti-matter create anti-gravity and is it related to photon pairing?

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Graduate Binding force applicable only to photons?

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Undergrad How does the Crystal Barrel detector (at ELSA) work?

  • jyoung95
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Graduate Can Causality and Operators Explain the Limitations of Quantum Field Theory?

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Graduate Questions about wave-particle duality

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Graduate Collisions of varying frequencys of Electromagnetic Radiation.

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Graduate Confusion Field Tensor and derivation of Maxwell's equations

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Graduate Collider Parameters: corrected time for wrong vertex

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Graduate Well I want to get some EXPERIMENTS: - in which we have clear

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Graduate What exactly is a single photon in the EM field?

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Graduate Neutrino Arrival Time: 3 Periods or 1?

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Graduate What is the decay tree for b quarks from neutralino WIMP annihilation?

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Undergrad Names of all standard model particles

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Graduate Higgs Boson and the Missing Cubic Term in the Standard Model

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Graduate Could the LHC create a particle that would make Earth the size of a football?

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Graduate Can the Higgs Boson be accelerated to the speed of light?

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Graduate QFT - rewriting a conserved quantity

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Undergrad Gamma Ray Microscope: Can it be Directed and Focused?

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Graduate The idea of the positron's existence?

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Graduate The CPT theorem in Weinberg Book, Vol I

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Graduate Renormalized Feynmann Rules (derivation)

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Graduate Small questions about weinberg angle

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Undergrad Can someone explain conserved quantities in this activity

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Graduate What Drives the Creation of Antimatter in High-Energy Collisions?

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Graduate Evaluating integral of sine and nested radical

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Graduate Which force causes decay in resonance states?

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Graduate Why exactly three lines at a Feynman vertex?

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Graduate Question on Higgs analogy - any answers?

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Graduate What is the relation between AFB and asymmetry charge?

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Undergrad Do electrons accelerate in the electric field of a discharge tube?

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Graduate Why can't leptons be subdivided like quarks in protons?

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Graduate Is the weak force really a force ?

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Graduate Solution of Navier-Stokes eq for a single particle?

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Graduate Is there a relationship between the Higgs boson and gravity?

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Graduate Why should force carriers be only boson?

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Undergrad Will 2.8 micro curie of radiation cause cancer

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Graduate How do you read gluon octet names and calculate color charge probabilities?

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Graduate In LHC collisions are protons aligned one-into-one?

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Graduate What is meant by the term beam spill ?

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Graduate Exchange force carrier between two protons

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Graduate More questions about Higgs for the layman

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Graduate How Does Fractional Charge in Quarks Relate to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking?

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Undergrad Why is the Large Hadron Collider so large?

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Graduate Why does rotating massless neutrino states preserve mass eigenstates?

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Undergrad Photons emitted via a nuclear transition?

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Graduate What Are the Hidden Predictions of QED in the Classical Limit?

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Graduate Why do particles gain finite mass from the Higgs field?

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Graduate The strong force and the weak force

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Graduate From matrix element to hadronic cross section

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Graduate Why does the stability line deviate from Y=X above mass number 20?

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Graduate Why is the threshold for triplet production 4m0c^2?

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Graduate Higgs field popular descriptions

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Graduate How can a bubble chamber be used to identify high energy particle reactions?

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Graduate How can there be antineutrinos?

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Graduate Is the Higgs field the same as space?

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Graduate Do they know how many types of quarks exist?

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Graduate Why to create Higgs Boson in LHC ?

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Graduate Beta Decay of He3 Atom: Electron Emission vs. Shell Occupancy

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Graduate Is there anything smaller than quarks?

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Graduate Is Higgs boson a particle of pure mass?

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Graduate Simulate Gamma Rays from Radioactive Decay

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Graduate Particles traveling backwards in time

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Graduate What would I see if there was a porthole in LHC's detectors?

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Graduate How does a decay electron produce scintillation light?

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Graduate How to produce beam of neutrons?

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Graduate Can Antimatter react with Higgs?

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Graduate What is q (the charge) in higgs mechanism?

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High School Rutherford scattering experiment

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Graduate Why Does the Higgs Potential Resemble the Maxican-Hat Potential?

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