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Graduate Discovering the 4 Types of Interactions & Fields in Particle Physics

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Graduate How Do Particle Spins Reflect Their Wave Characteristics?

  • and7barton
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Graduate Please explain something about the standard model

  • 3m0k177y
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Graduate Higgs Field and Einstein's Special Relativity

  • John Murray
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Graduate Exploring the Electromagnetic Effects of Helium Plasma on Earth & Jupiter

  • Rangertab1
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Graduate Weak + and - and Z neutral, free neutron, etc.

  • WilliamJ
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Graduate How can the Higgs Boson have a mass?

  • Killaacamzzz
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Graduate What's Next for the LHC After the Discovery of the Higgs Boson?

  • RJ Emery
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Graduate Understanding the Connection between the Higgs Field and Gravity

  • felipenavarro
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Graduate Higgs Mass and Other Particles

  • RJ Emery
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Graduate Higgs Bosons in another dimension?

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Graduate Higgs Particle. Where are you now?

  • esmeralda4
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Graduate How are collision events interpreted?

  • chaszz
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Graduate Spin of Particles Detected at LHC: Higgs Boson and Supersymmetry

  • ranrod
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Graduate Can someone explain the basics of these Higgs graphs?

  • BWV
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Graduate Could neutrino have negative mass?

  • omegabeta
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Graduate How does Higgs couple to mass resulting from photons or kinetic E?

  • Steve Harris
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Graduate What is the role of the Higgs in determining the mass of particles?

  • fanna
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Graduate What Happens to Decay Energy in U-238 to Th-234 Transition?

  • Marioqwe
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Graduate Electromagnetism & Higgs Boson

  • nitsuj
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Graduate Can Higgs mass measurements help determine neutrino mass?

  • doriannny
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Graduate U and Th Half Lives: Why So Long?

  • DrDu
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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between Mass and the Higgs Field

  • Ibix
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Undergrad Why are neutrons in the nucleus stable vs their free counterparts?

  • iced199
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Graduate What is the relationship between fields and particles

  • arcifus
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Graduate A couple of questions about Higgs Boson

  • davidoux2020
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Graduate Does Higgs Boson rule out spacetime curvature?

  • rafaelsoteldo
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Graduate How Many Kinds of Mass Does the Higgs Boson Mediate?

  • dylankarr.com
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Graduate Does the discovery of the Higgs Boson disprove String Theory?

  • CYP450
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Graduate Does Higgs-particle explain origin of inertia?

  • johann1301
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Graduate An Inquiry as to the Higgs Boson's Mass

  • gsmith
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Graduate Elementary particles, resonance

  • Crazymechanic
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Graduate How do having no mass or charge affect structure?

  • variable1
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Graduate [noob] simple parity violation

  • kknull
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Graduate Higgs Boson discovered Moment of victory Yay

  • jobsism
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Graduate How does the Higgs field give mass to particles in the Standard Model?

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Graduate Higgs particle, Electroweak force and Energy

  • the_pulp
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Undergrad How Long Does It Take for 80% of Carbon-14 to Decay in a Dead Animal?

  • Flavia
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Undergrad Theoretical particle beam weapon

  • crazymao
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Has anyone seen the Higgs boson recently?

  • epenguin
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Graduate Understanding Nuclei Interactions: Strength of Strong and Weak Forces on Protons

  • Flavia
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Graduate Theoritical Infinite Density of a Point Particle

  • e2m2a
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Graduate General Question about Higgs boson

  • Routaran
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Graduate Wave-Only Existence: Possible or Not?

  • lazer
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Graduate So how will CERN's LHC detect a Higgs boson

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Graduate Particle composition vs particle decay

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Graduate Are there exist distinguishable anti-gluon and anti of W-Z particles?

  • ndung200790
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Graduate Meson vs. Baryon: Quark Interactions and Fermions/Bosons

  • Flavia
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Graduate What is the role of the Higgs field in providing weak charge to the vacuum?

  • robertjford80
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Graduate How did scientists prove that quarks exist?

  • Karimspencer
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Graduate The particle/antiparticle pairs in mesons as well as three quarks in baryons?

  • WilliamJ
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Graduate Higgs particle question anticipating July 4 Cern announcement

  • Paulibus
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Graduate What is the True Nature of Mass and Its Origins?

  • CarlosLara
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Undergrad Calculating Decay Constant Without Initial Value

  • Flavia
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Graduate Can Anti-Photons Exist in Our Universe and How Do They Behave?

  • drakken1985
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Graduate Does natural iron have a denser nucleous then lab made iron?

  • Rorkster2
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Graduate What is the Speed of Neutrinos and How Does it Relate to Special Relativity?

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Undergrad Amount of Energy to Fuse Two Atoms

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Graduate Has the CP violating phase Delta in neutrino oscillation been measured at all?

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Graduate Would a transversal beam of electrons increase the energy collision in the LHC?

  • viraltux
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Graduate Kaon discovered by the unusual fork

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Graduate .Higgs Boson Decay: Does the Third Diagram Exist?

  • PLuz
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Graduate Paul Kolac's ball lightning generator available for research

  • grunes
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Graduate How much energy is released in a matter/antimatter collision?

  • Light Bearer
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Graduate Why does the pion^0 decay into two gammas with different spins?

  • tsinghua
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Graduate Fusing Electrons: Can it Work?

  • KJ4EPE
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Undergrad A very simple question about antimatter and E=mcc

  • KiwiKid
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Graduate What is the Nature of Matter: Electron & Fundamental Particles

  • jodavwel
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Graduate Can the Higgs Field Explain Relativistic Momentum and Energy?

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Graduate Latest Higgs Boson Rumors Spark Excitement in Scientific Community

  • Mordred
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Graduate Why do different nuclei need different neutron speed for neutron capture?

  • marklimmage
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Undergrad Beta+ Decay: Making Sense of Proton-to-Neutron Conversion

  • iced199
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Graduate Nuclear and elctronic binding energy

  • spaghetti3451
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Graduate Matrix element squared for up + antidown -> photon + W

  • TopQuark38
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Graduate What happens when a particle and an anti particle collide

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Graduate The propagator divergence in weak theory

  • dingo_d
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Undergrad What equipment is used to do transmutation and how do they use it?

  • Karimspencer
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Undergrad How much energy does annihilation take?

  • Karimspencer
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Graduate What Is Helicity Flip Suppression in Particle Physics?

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Graduate Top channel and electroweak breaking

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Graduate Quarks can form mini blackholes

  • robertjford80
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Graduate The Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons in a Vacuum

  • Cadaei
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High School How much energy does the nuclear fission in one uranium atom give?

  • Karimspencer
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Graduate How successful is pair production?

  • Michio Cuckoo
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High School Confused about what my exam board wants

  • BomboshMan
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Graduate Where Can We Find Anti-Particles for E=mc2 Energy Release?

  • Karimspencer
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Undergrad Can't you make elements out of elements

  • Karimspencer
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Graduate What is the acceptance of the detector?

  • tsinghua
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Graduate Are Virtual Particles Always the Same or Do They Vary in Our Universe?

  • Rorkster2
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Graduate Understanding Energy Resolution in Gamma Cameras for Improved Imaging Quality

  • Nyasha
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High School A weird sentence in my book Need clarifcation

  • ehabmozart
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Undergrad How Does Radioactivity Relate to the Number of Atoms in a Graph?

  • ehabmozart
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Graduate Proportion of energy gained by decay products

  • Punch
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Undergrad Why are Dust Particles Moving in a Specific Direction in a Sunlit Car?

  • Skoth
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Graduate Neutron Absorption of Lead Nuclei compared to Uranium Nuclei

  • Coxy1234
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Graduate Are there two types of mass in modern physics?

  • david findley
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Graduate Gauge invariance & mass shell amplitudes & pdfs

  • Gabi_K
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Undergrad About selecting energy range on the spectrometer

  • toex
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Graduate At how many femtometers does strong force cease to exist?

  • Rorkster2
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Undergrad Why is an alpha particle high ioniser

  • ehabmozart
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