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Graduate Can Protons Be Accurately Aimed in a Nuclear Reactor?

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Graduate Cross section energy dependence

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Graduate Learning about nuclear threshold energy and particle behavior

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Higgs Field/Particle: Evidence for Theory?

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Undergrad New particle discovered at Fermilab

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Graduate Particles That Flock: Aczel's Scientific American Article

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Graduate Will IceCube detect neutrino point sources within its operational sensitivity?

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High School Hi, the wikipedia article on fermium states that it is the last

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Undergrad What are the shape of nucleons and quarks?

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Graduate Can mercury be transmuted to gold using nuclear waste from batteries?

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Graduate Is vacuum energy really identical to the cosmological constant?

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High School Does exposure to radiation make a person radioactive?

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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 How can you tell if a photon has spin 1 or spin 2?

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Graduate Which proton wavefunction is correct for antisymmetrized quarks?

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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 Can W and Z boson speed be measured if they exist for 10^-25 seconds?

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High School Can antimatter be used as a weapon if it falls into the wrong hands?

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Graduate Neutron Scattering: Why Hydrogen is Negative

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Graduate What happens to excess matter when unequal amounts collide with antimatter?

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Graduate Is Gibbs free energy ever relevant for particle physics?

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Graduate Charge conservation when creating single charged particles

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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 Why can't we define protons as antimatter and electrons as 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 What is luminosity in the LHC and why does higher luminosity matter?

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Undergrad Why Is Radioactive Decay Always Exponential?

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Graduate How to construct the adjoint representation of SU(3) and derive its 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 Could solar energy transmute elements into 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?

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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 How does the Higgs field give particles mass?

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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 does SU(6) give the correct wavefunction for u, d, s quarks?

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Graduate Why do we classify similar particles as different types instead of variations?

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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 or just a chemical reaction?

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Graduate Why does the pi0 meson have four quarks with a 1/√2 factor?

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Graduate Why does the gluino superpartner differ from the quark superpartner in N=1 SUSY?

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Graduate Why can't supersymmetric particle masses be shifted arbitrarily high?

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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 Chart showing sizes of atoms, nuclei, and subatomic particles

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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 Solving coupled rate equations for induced nuclear reactions in decay chains

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Spin and Mass of Neutrinos?

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