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High School Sievert lethal radiation doses for Non-Humans (other animals)
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Undergrad Why are discontinuous Lorentz transformations excluded from the Poincare group?
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High School Iron, Nuclear Stability and Nuclear Energy
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High School Unleashing the Power of Nuclear Borehole Cannon: Shooting Projectiles into Space
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Graduate Klein Gordon Lagrangian -- Summation question
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High School Quarks, electrons, neutrinos, and photons?
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Graduate Glueballs - definitive detection
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High School Breit Wheeler Matter Production
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Graduate What are Z+, Z-, N+, and N- in the Axial Charge Definition?
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Graduate Clarifying Fradkin's Terminology on Quantum Numbers of Gauge Groups
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High School Compton Scattering and Inverse Compton Scattering
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Undergrad Single particle energy detection
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High School Gamma spectroscopy, Compton edge
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Graduate What knowledge is needed to understand modern QFT research?
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Undergrad Why are free parameters bad for a theory?
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Graduate Global vs. Local (gauge) Symmetry
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Graduate What is Dimensional Transmutation?
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Graduate How to understand Proton Structure-function (pdf)
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Undergrad How Will FASERν Transform Our Understanding of Neutrinos at High Energies?
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Graduate Effective Lagrangian: Breaking Causality or Non-Local?
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Undergrad Non-Relativistic Bethe-Bloch Calculation for Alpha Particle in Xenon"
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Graduate Any electron/beta coincidence database?
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Undergrad Maximum Angle of Deflection for Colliding Particles
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Undergrad What would a hypothetical quark-quark collision yield?
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High School Do charged particles always have spin?
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Undergrad Fermi Gas Model: Energetic Degeneration & the Pauli Exclusion Principle
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High School Are quarks fundamental elements of matter?
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Graduate Exploring the Electroweak Interaction: Uniting Weak and Electromagnetic Forces
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Graduate Intuition behind asymptotic freedom/slavery
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Graduate For the W3 and B bosons, what is their hypercharge and isospin?
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Undergrad Upper end of nucleon overtones
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Undergrad High Background Radiation Rates - Is This Normal?
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Graduate Why is the Higgs mechanism needed?
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Graduate $\phi^4$ in $4 - \epsilon$ dimension renormalization beta function
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Graduate Wilson Line Propagator: Understanding Eqtn 5.7 & 5.8
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Graduate Beta/gamma decay probabilities
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High School Using Compton Scattering to Determine Interaction Depth in Materials
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Undergrad Queries on the operation of the LHC with pilot beams before Run 3
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Undergrad Particle lifetime (half-life) question
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Undergrad Experimental average lifetime of particles
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Graduate Higgs field was zero right after Big Bang, could it return to zero?
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High School Source radioactivity estimate from a radiation detector
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Undergrad Discussion of free neutron lifetime
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High School Nuclear Fission & Creation of Plutonium
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High School Regarding electron-positron annihilation
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Undergrad Can Oscillations Explain Neutrino Anomalies?
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Undergrad A test for a superluminal neutrino?
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Undergrad What evidence supports the theory of gluon masslessness?
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Undergrad Channel electron multiplier as an electron source
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Graduate Proof that neutrino flavor oscillation implies nonzero neutrino mass?
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Graduate Measurement from Feynman diagram
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High School Speed of neutrinos - latest results?
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Graduate Question about S(3) spontaneous symmetry breaking in Peskin & Schroeder
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Undergrad Which machine learning model is best for detecting bottom quarks?
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High School Cloud Chambers - I to know what particle this is
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Undergrad Why Are Preon Models in Particle Physics Often Overlooked?
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Graduate Klystron beam current, drive frequency, LHC CW example
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Graduate Weinberg's gauge-fixed quantum gravity
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High School What is made up of all the rest quarks?
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Undergrad Ground State in Peskin and Schroeder
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Graduate How to find the value of the baryon asymmetry in this paper
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Graduate Relation of ionisation voltage vs. pressure for hydrogen
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Undergrad Dependency of phase space generator to differential distributions
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High School Could Fusion Reactions Occur Randomly in the Atmosphere or Planetary Cores?
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Graduate Some basic questions about effective field theory (EFT)
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Graduate Singularity in Rutherford cross section
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Undergrad Magnetic dipole in vacuum near absolute zero
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High School ARC Centre reports HF Gravitational Wave Antenna
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High School How to make this integral with initial conditions
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High School Electrons, quarks and gluons made from something or nothing?
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Undergrad Usable energy from alpha particles?
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High School Which lines are the quark-gluon plasma?
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Undergrad NIF Reaches Threshold of Fusion Ignition
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Undergrad Maximum acceleration of an alpha particle?
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Undergrad Why do modern X ray images have better resolution compared to older ones?
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High School Energy loss in the beam of LHC
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Undergrad How Does Beta Decay Relate to the Role of W Bosons in Weak Nuclear Force?
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Graduate What is the Lens Addition Equation?
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Graduate Why does D(1,1) representation of SU(3) give baryon octet?
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Undergrad Where Are the Poles of the Integrand for Δ<0 in Wick Rotation?
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Undergrad Why Is Momentum Preferred Over Velocity in Particle Physics?
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Undergrad Pauli-Villars regularization for Vacuum Polarization
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Undergrad Desorption probability calculation
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High School Shorter half-life and therefore very radioactive -- why?
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Undergrad What Software Is Used for Creating Plots in Academic Papers?
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High School How does conservation of energy apply at the nuclear level?
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High School Question about Iron-56 binding
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High School Is Photon Rotation Key to Solar Wind and Earth's Orbit Stability?
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Undergrad Energy distribution plot of neutrinos in beta decay
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Graduate How to reduce an integral in phase space to a one-dimensional form?
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Undergrad Longitudinal DIS Structure functions
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Undergrad More info on HT/HD shielding constants?
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Undergrad Shooting an electron past a positive nucleus (trajectory)
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Undergrad Do nucleons have a lower energy state when bound in a nucleus?
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Undergrad Uncertainty of histogram bins from MC-simulation
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High School Prevalence of nuclear decays accompanied by gamma emission
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Graduate Branching ratios | Higgs phenomenology
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Graduate Granular convection (particle distribution) calculation
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High School Can a hydrogen atom become a neutron?
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High School Symmetry of parity: Mistake in the experiment?
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