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Graduate Z° Isospin: Understanding T³=0 and Weak Isospin in Particle Physics

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Graduate Determining particle spin in collision experiments

  • JustinLevy
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Graduate Pion Decay in QED: Can it Occur via a Virtual Photon?

  • Rudipoo
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Graduate Dark matter energy loss mechanisms

  • Xomena
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Graduate Theories predicting electron mass

  • Ashwin_Kumar
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Undergrad What causes radioactive decay?

  • JDude13
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Graduate Groups in Physics: What are they Used For?

  • Schreiberdk
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Graduate What is the meaning of BPS D-branes ?

  • chongchong
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Graduate What is the Einstein relationship for calculating nuclear binding energy?

  • jaredogden
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Graduate Matter-antiMatter annihilation,Mesons?

  • ShayanJ
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Graduate Time it takes for a particle creation/annhilation (according to QFT)?

  • triclon
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Graduate How can you tell what force mediates an interaction?

  • malcomson
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Graduate Entropy and the Destruction of Matter

  • Norfonz
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Graduate Higgs Boson & Graviton: Same or Different?

  • GoodUniverse
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Graduate Two spin d.o.f. for massless gauge bosons

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate QCD Lagrangian: Multiplying 4x4 and 1x3 Matrices

  • yola
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Graduate Relation between Higgs boson and graviton

  • dimsun
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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between Neutrino Flavours and Mass Eigenstates

  • David_Harkin
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Undergrad Protection from both beta particles & Gamma rays?

  • gotmilk954
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High School Why Electrons Don't Stick to Nuclei

  • karawan
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Graduate Annihilation of Matter/Antimatter

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Graduate Anyone has done the 1-loop cancellation for the Wess-Zumino model?

  • diegoRED
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High School K.Ionizing Radiation: Uses, Dangers, and Effects

  • nobodyuknow
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Graduate Potassium-argon radiometric dating

  • Stefan Udrea
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Graduate Can We Create Antimatter More Efficiently and Effectively?

  • Kalrag
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Graduate If the Higgs is 'responsible' for the mass

  • InsertName
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Undergrad Particles & Forces: How Does Energy Move?

  • skywolf
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Graduate An online reference for SM Feynman Rules?

  • Hepth
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Graduate Explaining Electromagnetic Forces: Repulsion & Attraction

  • rogainuser
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High School How to divide positive and negative charges from each other

  • orenrocco
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Graduate Must time require particle interaction (including decay)?

  • skeleton
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Undergrad Interaction of two point charges

  • goldbloom55
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Graduate Why is photon self-energy called vacuum polarization?

  • cello
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Graduate How Do Photon Collisions Lead to Particle-Antiparticle Pair Production?

  • Deepak247
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Graduate So does the Higg field give the neutrino mass, and can neutrino velocity change?

  • bananan
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Graduate It's confirmed, matter is merely vacuum fluctuations.

  • marcus
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Graduate How many inverse femtobarns at 7 TeV to find Higgs?

  • petergreat
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Undergrad Can Nuclide Stability Be Determined by Atomic Weight or Radioactivity?

  • mathman
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Graduate Why are the Tevatron fill times so long?

  • jason12345
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Graduate Quark Existence: Proven or Inferred?

  • ion
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Graduate Energy Source of E Field in Decay of Neutral Pi Mesons?

  • cragar
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Graduate On monopoles' symmetry and other concerns

  • Redsummers
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Graduate Firing electrons at the nucleus

  • DrBloke
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Graduate What nuclei are stable against beta decay?

  • Onias
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Graduate Physical origin of nucleon pair-breaking energy?

  • m.e.t.a.
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Graduate K short to mu mu branching ration

  • akshaykatre
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Graduate Fusion in a Coffee Cup: Can It Lead To New Propulsion?

  • hhh79bigo
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Graduate Why is the proton's mass so much larger than the combined masses of its quarks?

  • InsertName
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Graduate What Determines the Parity of Deuteron Spin and Parity?

  • UniPhysics90
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Graduate Nuclear Shell model, how do we know energy levels?

  • UniPhysics90
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Undergrad Particles in Nature: Mesons, Baryons, Leptons

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Binding energy and radiactive decay?

  • kraphysics
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Graduate Understanding cut off wavelength at edge of Bremsstrahlung region

  • Jimbo
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Graduate Bhabha Scattering: Why Only Two Leading Order Diagrams?

  • gamma5772
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Graduate Trapping Anti-Matter: Difficulties & Quantum Fluctuations

  • ASD16
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Graduate Dimension of electric charge, hypercharge and isospin

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Undergrad What Are Neutrinos and Why Are They Important?

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Undergrad Who is the top physicist skeptical of gravitons?

  • Quantum Bum
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Graduate Magnetic Monopoles: Violating Conservation of Energy?

  • tionis
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Undergrad Radiation and penetrability of materials

  • SmileyMan
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Common Household Nuclear Reactions

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Graduate How does neutrino oscillation imply that neutrinos have mass?

  • umagongdi
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Graduate How can we fix the lightcone gauge in QCD?

  • henry_m
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Graduate Why Does He3 Fusion Create He4 + 2 Protons?

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Graduate LSZ reduction and Renormalization constants

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Graduate Can a Spherical Object in Space Achieve Fusion Without External Forces?

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Graduate Implications of Higgs Particle on Physics

  • Tanelorn
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Graduate Gamma matrices and projection operator question on different representations

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Graduate Radiolytic Oxidation: Mechanism & Effects on Nuclear Graphite

  • Jack_O
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Graduate Is the Higgs Boson Discovery at CERN Just a Rumor?

  • sanman
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Graduate Why do electrons not spontaneously split into neutrino/anti-neutrino pairs?

  • zaybu
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Graduate LHCf and high-energy cosmic rays

  • jal
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Graduate What's the Heat of Formation of Proton, Neutron and Electron?

  • CutterMcCool
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Graduate How do Kinematic Cuts Affect Cross-Section Calculation?

  • Manojg
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Graduate Explaining Equation (2.8) from Equation (2.6)

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Standard Model calculation of the rest energy of a proton

  • wuliwong
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Undergrad Converting Half Life to Becquerels

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Graduate How does temperature affect the mass of the axion particle?

  • memento829
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Graduate Applying Algebraic Topology, Geometry to Nonabelian Gauge Theory

  • zahero_2007
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Graduate Nuclear decay rates possibly correlate with distance from Sun

  • Mk
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Undergrad Intuitive description of Cross Sections

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Graduate What makes colliding neutrons bounce off one another?

  • andrewkirk
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Graduate The Neutrino as a Majorana Particle and Ray Davis's null first experiments

  • zhermes
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Graduate Resoance states and quark annihilation

  • Master J
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Graduate Parity Violation of Weak Force - Wu et al.

  • Master J
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Graduate Proton/Antiproton collision to produce top/anti-top quark pair:

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Graduate Converting from hbar = 1 to physical units

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Graduate Magnetic moment and binding energy

  • x_engineer
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Graduate New result from Xenon 100 dark matter search

  • petergreat
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Graduate How Does Strong Force Interaction Influence 2s/2as Tetraquark Decay?

  • eden2291
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Graduate Quarks inside protons and neutrons.

  • kaeksen
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Graduate Can quarks be separated from a proton/neutron?

  • P. Brien
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Graduate Particle Acceleration: Is Fission a Viable Option?

  • barryn56
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Graduate Where can I find experimental data

  • Appledave
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Graduate Feynman trick for linear propagators?

  • earth2
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Graduate Technicolor: quark-like particles inside Higgs?

  • rogerl
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Undergrad Rutherford Scattering: Troubleshooting Wrong Atomic Number

  • quietrain
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Graduate What Are the Best Resources for Learning Lattice QCD?

  • K.J.Healey
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Graduate Difference between two varieties

  • qraal
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Graduate Hunting for Particles in Accelerators: Revealing Virtual Reality?

  • Lapidus
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