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Graduate Do all forces have an associated particle?Is there theorized to be

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Graduate How is Born Cross Section Related to Observed Cross Section?

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Graduate How Does Field Operator Evolution Hold in QFT?

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Graduate Help:Resonance barion and model

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Graduate Massive particle has a specific chirality

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High School Can Tabletop Cold Fusion Be Achieved with Simple, Safe Materials?

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Graduate Ion beam with different charge state of the same element

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Graduate Calculating Cherenkov Radiation Energy & Intensity

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Graduate Coupling order in Fenman diagrams

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Graduate Exploring Electron Spin: The Stern-Gerlach Experiment and its Implications

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Graduate Attractive nature of nuclear forces

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Undergrad Why Are Cyclotrons Considered Dangerous?

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Graduate Proton charge radius calculation

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Graduate With Kaluza Klein theory can electric field lines thought of differently?

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Graduate Do have leptons 0 color charge or none?

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Graduate QCD vacuum contribution to W/Z masses

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Graduate What does it mean when they say the Gauge Sector of SM?

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Graduate Discrete protons and neutrons in nucleus

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Graduate QCD Ward Identity in Axial Gauge

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Graduate Infinity & Particles: Can They Really Travel at the Speed of Light?

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Graduate Pion decays into gamma rays. Find the energy and angle

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Graduate Where do gravitons come from and can we create them?

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Graduate The difference between the weak and mass eigenstates in the PNMS matrix

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Graduate Classifying Quarks: Understanding Mesons, Baryons, and Quark Families

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Graduate Proton Beam Elemental Transmutation

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Undergrad What Does Pure Energy Mean in Fusion and Fission?

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Graduate Basic question about Feynman Diagrams

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High School Is Plasma a Fluid? - Answer Here

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Graduate [Plasma physcis] fluid equation

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Graduate Can Down Quarks Be Flipped to Up Quarks?

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Undergrad Wave-particle duality and special relativity

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High School Displacement of air particles.

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Graduate Is the Photon Really Its Own Antiparticle?

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Graduate What Are the 8 Gluons and Their Role in Subatomic Physics?

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Undergrad Why are small particles always spherical ?

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Graduate Temperature distribution of neutrino background radiation

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Graduate Neutrino interaction/detection?

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Graduate What are the differences between photons and gluons?

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Graduate Role of Bosons in Nuclear Reaction

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Graduate What's the most high-energy photon or particle discovered? Where are we in that?

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Undergrad Do anti-particles have opposite parity?

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Graduate Railgun Plasma Plume: What Causes it & How Long Does it Last?

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Graduate Basic questions about Spin3/2 formalism

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Graduate Do isomeric transitions have vector characteristics?

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Graduate Nuclear Binding Energy: Equal Proton-Neutron Ratio

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Undergrad Why is fusion more efficient than fission?

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Undergrad Vibrations of a particle in solid

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Graduate Small Volume Plasma Confinement Device For Energy Storage

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Graduate Stars, fusion, how exactly the weak interaction acts ?

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Graduate What is the relationship between symmetry energy and asymmetry energy?

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Undergrad Why does the output of a linear accelerator increase in time?

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Graduate How can the Chi_b (3P) particle exist if matter and anti-matter annihilate?

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Graduate Why CP symmetry is violated in weak interaction?

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Graduate Why should we work with gauge theories

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Graduate Why in general speaking the mass of gauge boson is zero?

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Graduate Why must strong force theory be QCD?

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Graduate Classical Explenation on How The Sun keeps Shining

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Graduate If neutrinos are everywhere, why isn't Cherenkov's Radiation?

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Graduate How Does U(x) Relate to Pion Dynamics in Chiral Symmetry Breaking?

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High School What Temperature Does Each Element Become Plasma?

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Graduate Radioactive decay of an isolated body

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Graduate Analogy: Particle as a 'piece of color'

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Graduate Are quarks as sub-atomic as it gets? necessarily?

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Graduate What are the predicted byproducts of a He 3 and Be 9 fusion reaction?

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Graduate How Can We Visualize Proton Decay and Its Implications in Particle Physics?

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Undergrad Geiger Counter - predict counts?

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Graduate Where to look for the next neutrino

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Graduate Neutrinos carry away momentum, is it lost forever

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Graduate How Does Antimatter Energy Work and Its Potential for Space Travel?

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Graduate Mathematically rigorous way of expanding propagators?

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Undergrad Increase Ion Wind: Is It Possible?

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Graduate 5 rep of SU(5) under SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1)

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Graduate Generating Noether charges for Dirac Lagrangian

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Graduate What would happen if an electron hit you?

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How fast do CRTs shoot electrons?

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Undergrad When do they emit α, β+ or β- particle to become more stable?

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Undergrad Is Every System Not in Contact with a Temperature Source Considered Isolated?

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Graduate Why Do Theorists Use Series Expansion in Lagrangian Models?

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Graduate Higgs boson only interacts with accelerating particles?

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Graduate How Do Photon Degrees of Freedom Reduce from Four to Two?

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Graduate Requirements on Quantum Field Theory to be correct physical theory?

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Graduate How are W Bosons Formed in Beta Decay

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Graduate What particles are produced in a proton-proton collision?

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Undergrad Are protons/neutrons magnetic? (Do they have North and South poles?)

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Graduate Is the fragmentation of Carbon ions mainly composed of alpha particles?

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Graduate Solving QFT Commutator: Getting Unstuck with Quantum Field Theory

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Graduate Why doesn't a dineutron system form a bound state?

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Graduate Does Higgs Boson Discovery Support 4-D Spacetime Model?

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Graduate Are There Truly Any Massless Particles?

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High School High school kids building nuclear reactors?

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Graduate Gravitons and Cold Dark Matter

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Graduate ElectroWeak symmetry breaking.

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Graduate How is nuclear spin determined?

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Graduate Higgs boson lifetime and decay length?

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Undergrad Estimating the energy released in fission

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Graduate Reading off masses of eight goldstone bosons from chiral Lagrangian mass term

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Graduate Why can't we detect off-shell particles?

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Graduate Is it possible to create artificial infinite density on Earth?

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Graduate What do they mean by force particles exactly?

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Graduate Symmetry breaking and the ground state of a quantum field theory.

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