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Undergrad Is antimatter a theory or does it exist?
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Graduate What the graviton is and how we are searching for it
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Graduate What is the relationship between Planck scale mass and the strength of gravity?
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Graduate Gamma - when is pair production dominant
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Graduate Computing the 1-loop Correction to the 3 Gluon Vertex with Non-Zero Quark Mass
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Graduate How would neutron star matter behave on earth?
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Undergrad Beta Emission and Atom Deflection
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Undergrad Plutonium and Neutron Emission
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Graduate Photon Spin: 1 vs 2 - Answers for Alex
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Graduate Proton Wavefunction: Antisymmetry & Fermions Explained
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High School Difference between nuetrals and neutrons
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Graduate How to create stable mini black hole
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Graduate What Does Isospin Symmetry Mean in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Why do people say CSB is non-perturbative?
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Graduate Questions About W Bosons: Speed, Isolation & Existence
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High School Has CERN Confirmed the Existence of Antimatter?
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Graduate Neutron Scattering: Why Hydrogen is Negative
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Graduate Matter vs Antimatter Collision: What Happens to Excess?
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Graduate Is Gibbs free energy ever relevant for particle physics?
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Graduate Creation of singlets: charge conservation?
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Graduate How exactly does the pion decay through the weak force?
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Graduate Binding energies and decay energy.
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Graduate Protons: matter or anti-matter?
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Graduate Why haven't gravitons been discovered yet?
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Is the KeK preprint library down? (or KeK itself)
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Graduate QED as a gauge invariant theory
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Graduate The Potential of Antimatter for Nuclear Reactor Control
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Graduate Net Effect of Z Boson on Charged Particles
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Undergrad Luminosity in LHC: Engineer's Guide to Understanding
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Undergrad Why Is Radioactive Decay Always Exponential?
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Graduate Roots of SU(3): Basic Constructs & Generators
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Graduate When will we know whether neutrinos are Majorana fermions?
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Graduate Large ship propulsion. (Orion revisited)
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Graduate The scalar partner of Majorana particle in SUSY
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Graduate The Sun's Energy: Transmuting Elements to Rare Metals
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Graduate Better Model for Radioactive Decay
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Graduate Higgs mass from electroweak measurements
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Graduate Does the Higgs Field Really Exist? Beliefs and Debates Explored
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Graduate Baryon quantum numbers from partons
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Graduate Can a W boson decay to a u quark and anti-s quark?
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Undergrad Understanding bubble chamber tracks
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Graduate Top and W radiative corrections and the Higgs Mass
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Graduate Muon g-2 and Muonic hydrogen anomalies
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Graduate Does the mass difference between p+ and e+ explain differences wrt e- ?
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Graduate A question from hawking's grand design
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Undergrad Opposite of Half Life: Exponential Growth
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Graduate Searching Neutralino Decay in the Sun w/ Amanda
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Graduate Fission of Pb 208: Can We Sustain it?
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Graduate I have a question regarding creation of anti-matter
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High School How Does a Geiger Tube Detect Radiation?
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Graduate Can Matter and Antimatter Be Indistinguishable?
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Graduate Understanding the Higgs Particle
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Undergrad What is the evidence for a higgs particle?
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Graduate Why is a deuteron an antisymmetric singlet in
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Graduate Many particle system - problem with cross product
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Graduate Why Group Theory Works: SU(6) & Quarks
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Graduate Particle Classification: Why Do We Class Particles in a Specific Way?
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Graduate Feynman rules of scalar QCD (colour ordered)
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Graduate Can High Energy Gamma Rays Interact with Protium and Heat It Up?
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Undergrad What is the true nature of electromagnetic waves - particles or fields?
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High School Components involved in degrees of freedom?
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Graduate Higgs primer for someone without field theory
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Graduate Locating particles /their properties
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Graduate Why Did Neutrons Decay in the Early Universe?
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Graduate Confusion over parity violation
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High School Can We Create Elements in the Lab?
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A good video on the Higgs Boson
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High School Is Fire a Plasma? Answers & Discussion
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Graduate Understanding the Pi-0 Meson Quark Makeup: An Explanation of its Composition
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Graduate SUSY multiplets - simple question
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Graduate Is SUSY Facing Its Demise? Examining the LHC's Latest Results
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Graduate Gamma ray coincidence and multipoles
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Graduate LHC to achieve design energy in 2012/2013?
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Graduate Tensor or pseudo-tensor particles
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Undergrad Uranium-235 fission fragment pairs
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Undergrad Random movement of particles or other things?
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Graduate SU(n) - conjugate representation
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Graduate How Do Charge Quantization and Coupling Constants Interrelate in QED and QCD?
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Graduate Atomic & Subatomic Particle Scale | Standard Model Info
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Undergrad Gamma Rays: Finite Range in Water?
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Graduate Collapsed Nuclei: Possible or Not?
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Undergrad Searching for LHC News - Has Higgs Been Found?
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Graduate How do fermions acquire mass as opposed to gauge bosons?
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Graduate Why is the standard model based on particles instead of fields?
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Graduate Do Gravitational Fields Increase the Rest Mass of Protons and Photons?
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Graduate What is the difference between particle physics and nuclear physics?
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Graduate Coupled nuclear decay rate equations
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Spin and Mass of Neutrinos?
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Graduate I just read in Griffiths 'Electrodynamics' (chapter 12.3) how
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Undergrad Is There an Equation to Determine Gamma Ray Frequency from Radioactive Decay?
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Graduate Incorrect explanation of parity violation?
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Graduate Why Is There a Negative Sign in the Differential Cross Section?
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Graduate Feynmann diagram for beta decay, direction of arrows confusion
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Graduate Electric charge and spontaneous symmetry breaking
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Undergrad Half-Life Calculation: How Do Physicists Measure Isotopes?
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Undergrad Atom Stability: Mass Number, Radioactive Decay & More
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Graduate Can anyone please tell me what are preons.
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Undergrad Strange and non strange current
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Graduate Neutral Pion and Right-Handed Neutrinos
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Graduate A couple of questions about the weak force.
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