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Graduate What are the meson 1p, 1d, 1f, states?

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Graduate Why don't batteries strip multiple electrons per atom?

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Graduate New Models to Describe Nuclear Structure

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Graduate Heavy sterile neutrino decay into Z bosons. (Feynman Diagram)

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Graduate 1D QED on a lattice, how much information?

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Undergrad What Does Six Sigma Mean in Neutrino Research?

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Graduate Where does the sqrt(12) factor in track detector spatial accuracy come from?

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Graduate How do we know generator of U(1) is operator of electric charge?

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Graduate How are gauge bosons created and do they exist virtually everywhere?

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Undergrad Why are alpha and beta particles called radiation if they have mass?

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Graduate Why Won't This Cold Fusion Experiment Work?

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Undergrad Why do electron-positron pairs move backward from photon pair production?

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Graduate Conformal invariance of gluon amplitudes

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Graduate Do I Need My Own Antiparticle to Calculate D^0 Decay to K^++π^-?

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Graduate Difference between nuclear, particle, and high energy physics?

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Graduate QFT books that discuss Infra-red dimensional regularization?

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Graduate Higgs Confusion (The Higgs Era )

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Graduate Evidence for fermion statistics among neutrinos

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Graduate How is the parton model justified by QCD?

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Graduate What is the difference between electron, muon and tau neutrinos?

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Graduate Color of gluon mediating quark-antiquark process?

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Graduate How to deal with gama5 in dimensional regularization?

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Graduate QED in Coulomb Gauge: Deriving the Coulomb Force and Questions

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Graduate Soft and ultrasoft gluons in QCD

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Graduate Calculating the number of alpha particles incident on a detector

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Graduate Antimatter and bubble chambers?

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Graduate Is Electroweak Symmetry Breaking a Requirement of Universal Law?

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Graduate Does the Higgs Boson Influence Gravity?

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Graduate Why is the decay of a neutral ρ meson to two neutral π's disallowed?

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Graduate Why do charged pions have different masses from neutral pions?

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Graduate What Exactly Is Matter in Our Universe?

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Graduate Cylindrically symmetric plasmas and models for.

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Graduate Higgs search at LHC til December only?

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Graduate Notation for Weak Nuclear Force Particles

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Graduate Gauge symmetry and renormalization

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Graduate Could an Antimatter Bomb Match the Power of the Tsar Bomba?

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Graduate What is the Top Reference for Particle and High Energy Physics?

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Graduate CP violation and new SM discrepancy at the LHCb

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Graduate Has there been experimental evidence for neutrinos being affected by gravity?

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Graduate Beta Decay: Experimental Demonstration & Critique

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Undergrad Energy to remove a proton and a neutron from a nucleus

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Graduate Is Koide's Formula Linked to Quark Mass Ratios?

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Graduate Lagrangian transformation between inertial frames in Landau's mechanics

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Graduate Gravitational Potential Energy During Nuclear Reactions

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Graduate How to choose the radius of a synchrotron storage ring for radiation production

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Graduate Nuclear fusion (requirements to start fusion)

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Graduate Can collision of two protons create multiple antiprotons ?

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Graduate Gamma ray spectroscopy of deuteron formation

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High School Particles traveling in curved lines?

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Undergrad Energy needed to split an atom

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Graduate Two Questions about Photon/Electron Interaction

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Graduate What is the role of spin in electron K-capture?

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Undergrad Why is Dark Matter More Noticeable Near Galaxies Than Elsewhere?

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Graduate Casimir operators and rest mass

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Undergrad Which plasmas are hot and which are cold: ionosphere, lightning, polar aurorae

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No Higgs [at the LHC] - Anthem of a young theoretical physicist.

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Undergrad What is the highest yield nuclear weapon in existence today?

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Graduate Which bosons are used to mediate the electroweak force?

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Graduate How can I use creativity as an experimental particle physicist?

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Undergrad Understanding Nuclear Spin: Odd Proton and Neutron Counts

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Undergrad Neutrinos Pass Through Earth: Fact or Fiction?

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Graduate Ease of chain reaction for enriched uranium

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Graduate Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics Just a Descriptive Framework?

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Graduate Physics of a Cloud Chamber: Neutrons, Kinetic Energy, and Ionization

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Undergrad How does cold fusion work?

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Graduate Why is the nuclear shell model build around single particle motion?

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Graduate Do Higgs particles get spaced apart as space expands, or are new ones created?

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High School Why do radioactive nuclei emit alpha and beta particles?

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Graduate Why is cross section important for studying artificial radioactivity?

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Graduate Photon Pair Production Cross Sections at 7 TeV from CMS at LHC | LHC Preprint

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Graduate No explanation of quantized charge from U(1)?

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Undergrad Is a 6.03% Increase in Particle Counts Statistically Insignificant?

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High School What exactly is the god particle ?

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Graduate Detonate a 150 Kilotons nuclear bomb 77M underground

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Undergrad Lifespan of Neutrons Adhering Together

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Graduate What happens when two neutrons collide and what energy is required?

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Undergrad Do radioactive samples become ionized after alpha and beta decay?

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Undergrad What is the nucleus shell model?

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Graduate How do you derive QED from the Weinberg-Salam model?

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Graduate Fibre bundles for describing gauge invariance

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Graduate How to slow down an antimatter explosion for a story

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Undergrad Strong Force alternative theory besides gluon

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Undergrad Collision Between Three or More Particles

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Graduate Why is the strong force stronger at distance and alpha decay tunneling?

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Graduate Is fission or fusion of antiparticles possible?

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Graduate What Are Fractional Particle Charges?

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Graduate Neutrino Oscillations for Dummies

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Graduate Evidence for unification of couplings

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Graduate Particle- antiparticle annihilation, how is it understood?

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Graduate Why should there be CPT symmetry?

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Graduate Internal Conversion of Bi-207/Pb-207

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Graduate Why there is not righthanded neutrino,but there are righthanded electrons?

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Graduate Higgs Model Equations: Find the Equation Here

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Graduate *if* the higgs can not be found

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Graduate Neutrino collision with a proton,neutron or an electron?

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Undergrad Are these two calculations of electrostatic force correct?

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Graduate Empirical success of non-pert methods in QFT?

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Graduate Energy lost by neutrons in elastic and inelastic scattering

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Graduate What is Resonance State Particle and How Does it Differ from Real Particles?

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Undergrad Can particles be frozen/stopped and studied?

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