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Undergrad Creating gold from particles was possible

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Graduate How to incorporate the neutral current into the Dirac equation

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Graduate Where Can I Find References on Composite Quarks and Leptons?

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How do I assign Greek indices in Jaxo Draw for scientific diagrams?

  • Neitrino
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Graduate What does it mean for a theory to be renormalizable

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Graduate Energy and Momentum in Particle Decay

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Undergrad What causes electric charges? Repulsion and attraction?

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High School What state of matter are atomic particles in (protons, neutrons, ect.)

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Undergrad Electromagnetic Radiation Produced During Fission

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Graduate Quantum numbers related to every flavour of quark

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Graduate Srednicki Ch90: How to Identify Electromagnetic Gauge Field

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Graduate Clarification of distinctness of fundamental forces/interactions

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Graduate How to calculate the nuclear size from the strong nuclear force?

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Graduate Question about quark flavor change.

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Graduate Understanding the PMNS matrix?

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Graduate Should the Feynman graph for muon decay include an arrow on the W boson?

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Graduate Why is the decay of a single photon impossible?

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Undergrad What is the validity of half lives being constant in all radioactive isotopes?

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Graduate A puzzle about the higgs mechanism

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Graduate Do virtual particles interact?

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Graduate Why Does Fission of U235 Release More Energy Than Calculated?

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Graduate Graviton Propagator and energy-momentum tensor

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High School Atom Empty Space: What is in Between Electrons and Nuclei?

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Graduate How Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Explain the Empty Space Inside a Proton?

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Graduate Is spending huge money on high energy physics expt justified?

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High School Atmospheric C14 is measured permil Permil of what?

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Graduate Decay chain of radioactive isotopes

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Graduate Why does the neutrino have a magnetic moment?

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Graduate Matter-antimatter symmetry and particle charge

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Graduate The link between CP violation and neutrino oscillations?

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Undergrad Why only gamma radiation from nuclear transitions?

  • PhysicoRaj
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Graduate What is the cause of radioactive decay?

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Graduate EM Experiment Video: Seeking Details of High-Energy Experiments

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Undergrad Hiroshima Little Boy Atomic Bomb Physics Help

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Graduate Is US Fusion Energy Research at Risk Due to Budget Cuts?

  • Khashishi
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Graduate Local Conservation of Charge: Feynman's Thought Experiment Explained

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Graduate Constraints on interactions of tachyons

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Graduate Pauli Exclusion across the three Generations

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Graduate Proton, antiproton annihilation

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Graduate What Defines the Size of an Atom and How Do We Know Force Carriers Exist?

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Generational Similarities: Neutrino Connection?

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Graduate Does Wick Rotation Preserve Mass or Orbital Momentum?

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Graduate Neutron - Proton interaction(through down quark)

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Graduate Wave -Particle dualtiy, the most convincing evidence?

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Undergrad Is Mass Really the Opposite of Energy?

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Graduate Degrees of freedom of quantum fields and elementary particles

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Graduate What is the conserved quantity for boosts in the Poincare group?

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Graduate Lorentz Algebra Vector Rep: How to Derive 4x4 Matrices?

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Graduate Creating MadGraph 5 model folders

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Graduate Can Nuclear Fusion Power Ever Reach Break-Even Point?

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Graduate 2 Q's about statements in Griffiths' book (regarding proton decay)

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Graduate I have some confusion over neutrino oscillations?

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Graduate Neutron Absortion cross section for an element

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Graduate Neutrons don't decay in nuclei because no available states incorrect?

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Graduate Neutron-Antineutron pair production

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High School Could a major solar flare knock out nuclear reactor safety?

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Graduate All Fermion Base Particles: Charge and Rest Energy-Mass

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Graduate Stability in the family of baryons

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Graduate Singlets and Doublets in SU(2)

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Graduate Right handed particles and SU(2)L gauge invariance

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Undergrad Is the Look-Elsewhere Effect Similar to Playing Pool Without Calling Shots?

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Undergrad What happens to neutrons after they are radiated?

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Graduate How analogous is the strong force to photon/electron interaction in QED?

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Graduate A few doubts about quantum field theory and high energy physics.

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Graduate Resonance & Triple Alpha Process: Why Does It Matter?

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Graduate A Problem in Georgi's Lie algebras in particle physics

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Graduate How abundant are the different generations of matter in the universe?

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Graduate Electrons and Positrons - Not elementary?

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Graduate Cross section of coulomb sacttering vs Rutherford

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Particle discovery - reading the plot

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Graduate Is it possible to have a single photon ionize an atom of Francium?

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High School Virtual particles in interactions

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Graduate Is c^2 = m/E a Valid Representation of Stable Elemental States?

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Graduate Why is the decay of Rho meson into pion and photon suppressed?

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Graduate Why are there so few detected extrasolar neutrino sources?

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Graduate Why can't an electron have a even lower energy level in atom?

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Graduate Particle Frequency: Neutron Mass 1.0245 amu

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Graduate Has anyone noticed that there are patterns everywhere in high energy physics?

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Graduate Smeared quantum fields in everyday QFT

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Graduate Would a massive collection of neutrons be invisible?

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Graduate Estimating Ion Pairs Produced by 5MeV alpha in UF6

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Graduate SU(5) model, gauge boson decay

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Graduate How to estimate the upper limit mass of electron neutrino?

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Graduate Why do we never observe the decay of this particle?

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Graduate The Higgs Mechanism: Explaining the Role of Goldstone Bosons in Mass Generation

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Graduate Question about the standard model equation

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High School Would you Hear a Stars Nuclear reactions if you were close to it?

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Undergrad Is the strong nuclear force truly stronger at greater distances?

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Graduate True or false? Fundamental particles

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Graduate Could TIME or the age of matter be a factor?

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Graduate Graviton Quantization: Energy Needs of Particle Accelerator

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Graduate Understanding the Naturalness Problem: Examples and Explanation

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Graduate Why Does the Lagrangian of a Free Particle Depend Only on Velocity Magnitude?

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High School Radioactivity, disintegrations and Half Life

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Graduate Determining a mediating force of an Interaction

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Graduate Why are all protons identical?

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Graduate What is the role of coercivity in modeling superconductors in Opera v15?

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Undergrad What was the principal nuclear reaction of Fermi's nuclear pile

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Graduate Finding Charge Conjugation Eigenvalues

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Graduate Is Space Continuous or Quantized?

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