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Undergrad Causality for internel vertex in Feynaman diagrams
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Undergrad Uncertainties of the hadronic corrections for electron and muon
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Graduate Question about Color Singlet State invariance under Unitary Matrix
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Undergrad The 1/v law for U-235 cross section
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Undergrad Why is Uranium-236 less stable than Uranium-235 and Uranium-238?
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Undergrad Why do electrons never stop moving?
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Graduate How Do Free and Interaction Terms in Quantum Field Theory Affect Particle Mass?
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Undergrad Neutron vs electron degeneracy pressure
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Undergrad Static potential accelerator question
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High School Fundamental fields and vacuum energy
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High School Differences between peak dose and peak dose rate
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Undergrad Understanding Plasma: Definition, Properties, and Temperature Considerations
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Undergrad How Conductive is Ionized Air? Investigating the Physics of Plasma Cutters
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Graduate What are some example Feynman diagrams in Yang-Mills theory?
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Undergrad Why don’t two protons bind together?
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Undergrad Heaviest particle detected so far
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Graduate Distribution of protons inside a large nucleus
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Undergrad How Does CP Violation Relate to Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in the Universe?
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Undergrad How many magnets are in the CMS experiment
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Undergrad Why is the mass of the singlet meson higher than the octet mesons in QCD?
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Undergrad Tau mass -- How was it measured for the first time?
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Undergrad Shape of exclusion plots of WIMP
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Graduate Higgs particle and non-zero expected value in vacuum
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High School Distance covered when 22 MeV gamma rays travel through air
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Undergrad Positron decay direction from muon
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Undergrad What happens to the non-interacting part of protons in LHC collisions?
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High School What can be interpreted if mass of product < mass of reactant?
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High School How can we measure the wavelength of gamma-rays?
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Undergrad What is the electric charge of a neutrino?
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High School Why does a U-238 tamper increase nuclear yield of nuclear bomb?
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Understanding radioactivity levels of different isotopes
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Undergrad Why Are B Mesons Long-Lived and How Does B-Tagging Work?
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High School How does the Gamow window change for different reactions?
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High School Which one is more efficient in generating high energy Gamma rays?
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Undergrad Understand selection rules in ##\beta##-decay/EC
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Undergrad How do you get polarized charged particles?
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Undergrad Tau Decay: More Pions, Less Ratio?
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Undergrad How is the weak force related to a change in velocity?
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Graduate XRay Help -- Xrays are generated "accidentally" in a HV machine
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Undergrad Confused on the premise behind De Broglie's hypothesis
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Undergrad Have we observed asymptotically free quarks?
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Undergrad Virtual particles and Heisenberg
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Undergrad Understanding Gluon Self-Interaction and Quark/Gluon Jet Differentiation
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Undergrad Why is the weak force a force?
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High School Gamma rays over very large areas
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High School Can a high energy kinetic impact stimulate nuclear reactions?
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Undergrad What is the difference between sensitivity and efficiency in particle detection?
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Undergrad Loss of electron & proton energy due to radiation
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Graduate High energy symmetry breaking and laws of physics?
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Graduate Developing the Feynman diagram expansion
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Graduate Diffussion-limited aggregation and the mobility of particles
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Graduate Construction of real gamma matrices
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Undergrad Majorana Neutrinos: Evidence of Particle vs. Antiparticle?
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Graduate What are the forces acting on an air particle along a fluid streamline curve?
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Undergrad How Does Binding Energy Relate to Nucleon Distance in Atomic Nuclei?
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Undergrad Majorana Mass Plot: Normal & Inverted Hierarchy
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Undergrad ATLAS and CMS see signs of Higgs->muons decay
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Undergrad Renormalization of scalar field theory
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High School How does the LHC send same charged particles against each other?
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High School Why does the nucleus become unstable as the number of nucleons increases?
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Undergrad Calculating t for H Ions on W Target @2.5 MeV & 100µA F=10^16
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Graduate Spectroscopy of positronium fine structure: 4.5 sigma deviation
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Undergrad Is Nuclear fusion possible at room temperature with high preassure?
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Undergrad How to read this decay sheet (gamma emission after beta decay)
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Graduate Difference between generations of quarks
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Undergrad Understanding crossing symmetry: inverse beta decay
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Undergrad How powerful would a collider have to be to observe a sphaleron?
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Undergrad Beta and gamma rays from radium
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High School Are electrons or protons attracted due to their magnetic moments?
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Undergrad Neutron/proton nucleon destruction by acceleration
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Undergrad Electron's magnetic moment
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Graduate What pressure would be needed to cause fusion of water?
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Undergrad Possibilty of flavor oscillation of an electron
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Undergrad No "i" in the Triple gluon vertex Feynman Rule
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Graduate How does the number of particles increase the surface adsorption?
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High School Is the Energy Change and Barrier in Quantum Decay Constant for a Given System?
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High School Alpha particle in a force field depiction
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Graduate LHCb discovers a new tetraquark state
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Graduate If Neutrinos are majorana particles, does this mean lepton number is not conserved?
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Undergrad Why does a cyclotron only impart linear momentum?
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Undergrad Particle Creation function of beam energy
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High School Fundamental particles and mass quantization
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High School Can Tritium and Tritium Fuse in Deuterium-Tritium Plasmas?
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Graduate Lennard Jones, 3 particles, partition function
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Graduate Neutrino decay before electroweak breaking
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Graduate Dark matter experiment XENON1T sees an excess at low energies
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Undergrad T2K sees ~3 sigma evidence for neutrino CP violation
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High School Nuclear wavefunction and Bose-Einstein condensates
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Undergrad Understanding the mass of ordinary matter
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Undergrad Can the "same" particle be used in different experiments?
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High School Amount of Plasma [g] in nuclear fusion designs
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Undergrad Understanding Nuclear Fusion Cross Section Diagrams
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Undergrad How does the experimentalist deal with Compton Scattering?
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Undergrad Why is the electron EDM so small in the SM?
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High School What is the significance of the newly discovered isotope, Mendelevium-244?
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Undergrad Low p_t cuts in experimental measurements
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Graduate IceCube rules out last SM explanation of ANITA’s anomalous neutrinos
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Undergrad Special Case of Compton Scattering
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Graduate Books/Resources related to the thermal model for particle production
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Undergrad Difference Between T-Odd & T-Violation?
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