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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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Undergrad Beginner questions on elementary particles
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Graduate Feynman Propagators: Invariant Amplitude vs Loop Integrals
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Graduate Can the Oh-My-God particle kill an astronaut?
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Graduate If we could slowly vary the strength of the strong force.
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Graduate What is the quark magnetic moment?
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Graduate Understanding Quark Behavior Through Experimental Measurements
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Graduate Q-value in beta minus decay does not match.
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Undergrad Particle Size Distribution Measurement
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Graduate Force Carrier for Electromagnetism
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Graduate An electron and a proton can not form a neutron because they are short
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Graduate Chiral Lagrangian symmetry
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High School Muons: Uses, Detection, & Volcanoes
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