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Graduate Radioactive decay and solar flares
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Graduate Where did the inertia go in anti-matter reaction?
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Undergrad Is it Safe and Worthwhile to Build a Homemade Particle Accelerator?
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Graduate Quantity of free neutrons in universe.
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Graduate How to calculate radiation dose from neutron source.
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Graduate Particle in box - Getting confused by formula
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Graduate Complex scalar field and contraction
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Graduate Liquid Drop Model: Why is Mass of Nucleus a Minus Away?
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Graduate Can creation and annihilation operators be used in interaction case?
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Graduate Experimental confirmation of electroweak?
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Graduate What is the process to acheive hadronization?
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Graduate What is inside the detector in a particle accelerator?
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Graduate How many gluons are there in a proton?
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Graduate Is neutrino oscillation a violation of a conservation law?
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Undergrad Modifying Coulomb's Law for Use in Particle Energy (chemistry)
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Graduate Questions about the Electroweak Lagrangian
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High School Particle Physics: What is Nano Particle?
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Graduate Understanding the Yukawa Term in Srednicki's Lepton Sector
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Graduate How Can the S-Matrix Transform Like Free Particle States in Weinberg's QFT?
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Graduate Can Neutrino Mass Eigenstates Ever Change into Other Mass Eigenstates?
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Graduate Classification of Gauge Theories
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Graduate Can Shining a Laser on Particle Collisions Reveal New Observations?
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Graduate Where does other energy go when matter and antimatter annihilate?
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Graduate Spectral weight function and the mass shift of a scalar field
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Graduate Is Quantum Electrodynamics a Complete Theory of Electromagnetism?
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Graduate Loop contributions of the Quantum Action
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Graduate Help in clearing up Higgs boson/field
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Graduate Do Gauge Bosons have anti-particles?
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Graduate Weak force: CP yes + P no -> C no?
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Graduate Building My Own Particle Accelerator: Starting the Research
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Graduate Antimatter: How and Why It Generates Energy
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Graduate Calculating Feynman Rules for Effective Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian
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Graduate Rough overview of results from collision experiments
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Graduate Will ionized particulates mimic ionized oxygen atoms?
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Graduate The Dirac equation with anomalous magnetic moment term
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Graduate How to prove the Fierz identity using fierzing twice?
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Graduate What is a differential cross section?
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Undergrad What is the Reason Behind Beta Decay Not Creating an Ion?
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Graduate Beam Particle Density: Linear vs Synchrotron Beams
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Graduate Energy pie chart for proton, field energy?
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Graduate Understanding the Instability of Positronium: A Closer Look at K-Capture Decay
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Graduate Question about neutrino oscillations
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Graduate Is the PMNS Matrix Always Unitary in Neutrino Physics?
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Graduate Hypothetical graviton : Why a spin of 2 ?
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Graduate Fadeev-Popov ghosts and renormalization
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Graduate Physical Hilbert Space - Inner Product & Rigorous Account
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Graduate Could the Higgs Boson Actually Be a Wave Instead of a Particle?
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Graduate 22 July rumor: Higgs at 144 GeV and anti-Higgs at 350 GeV (comment?)
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Graduate Is there a connection between spin and KE/mass-energy equivalence?
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Graduate Is Photon Decay Allowed in QED? Investigating Conservation Laws and Amplitudes
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Graduate Derivation of the differential cross section
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Undergrad Is Radioactive Decay Really Random?
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Graduate Meaning of X as in SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1)
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Undergrad Sun Particles and Radioactive Decay
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Graduate Understanding Dirac Spinor Question in QED
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Graduate Some energy levels ruled out for Higgs
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Graduate Industrial grade positron formation
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Graduate What's the matter with a Particle Zoo?
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Graduate Mach's Principle in Particle Physics
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Graduate Ward-Takahashi identity and renormalization
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Graduate What Is Deep Inelastic Scattering and How Does It Reveal Quark Structure?
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Graduate The Outcome of W+ and W- Boson Collision
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Undergrad How is a neutron captured by a proton?
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Graduate How are the anti-quarks formed
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Graduate What is the relationship between the weak nuclear force and charge?
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Graduate Is double parton scattering useful?
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Graduate Casimir's Trick/Evaluating Cross Sections
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High School Why doesn't the most common form of the hydrogen atom have a neutron?
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Graduate Using Dimensional Regularization to Tame Divergent Momentum Integrals
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Graduate Virtual particle propagators in QFT
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Graduate IF tachyons existed,would they violate causality?
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Graduate Why Are There Only 8 Gluons in Quantum Chromodynamics?
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Graduate Higgs Field, Big Bang & Negative Pressure: Questions Explained
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Graduate Understanding the QCD Sum Rule: What is it and How Does it Work?
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Graduate Sakurai: gravitational repulsion
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Graduate Neutrino Dilemma: How Physicists Established Existence
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Graduate Photon+photon -> neutrino + antineutrino ?
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Graduate What is the meaning of the local gauge transformation exactly?
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Graduate The New Dijet Particle in the Tevatron IS the Higgs
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High School Understanding Decay in Stable Nuclei: How and Why It Occurs
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Graduate Can massless charged particles exist in nature?
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Graduate Fundamental properties of subatomic particles
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Graduate Particle Decay Mode Percentages
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Graduate Neutrino Scattering: F. Diagrams at 1st Order
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Graduate Radioactive decay as explained by Wikipedia
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Undergrad Proton and Electron Collision: What Might Happen?
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Graduate Are the gluons that make up a proton considered virtual particles?
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Graduate Induced scalar electric potential
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Graduate What Can We Infer About the Isospin of an Alpha Particle?
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Graduate What does the R-Symmetry do to scalars and fermions in N=4 U(N) SYM?
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Graduate How Can Neutrons Emit Bosons Much Heavier Than Them
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Graduate Understanding Point Particles: The Mainstream Physics Perspective
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Graduate Weak interactions that change lepton flavor
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High School Can You Make Plasma at Home? Tips and Safety Precautions
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Graduate Why Are There No 3 Up Quark Nucleons?
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Graduate Do H- annihilation spectra vary with element?
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Graduate Changing the spin of an electron
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Graduate Phonons (kintetic waves) in a plasma?
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Graduate High Energy Electron- Proton Collison
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Graduate Howard Georgi's book on Lie algebras in particle phy
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