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Graduate Ok really dumb hypothetical nearly impossible question

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Graduate What particles can the Z boson couple to in the standard model?

  • jc09
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Graduate Does anti-matter Always annihilate with matter?

  • Qentanglement
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Graduate Heating Gases: Can We Make Protons Fly?

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Graduate Can Subatomic Particles be Configured Into Other Particles?

  • GladScientist
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Graduate What Are Teraelectronvolts (TeV) & the LHC?

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Graduate What is the meaning of antisymmetry in wavefunctions?

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Graduate Is this diagram i have made relating to david hahns experiments correct?

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Is this the largest homemade accelerator ever built?

  • AuroraIndust
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Graduate The Gamma Matrices, Spinors, Anti-Commutation, and all that Jazz

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Graduate Is Tritium-Tritium Fusion the Key to Sustainable Energy?

  • BrianConlee
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Graduate Conserved quantities in the Feynman diagrams.

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Graduate Experimental observations of anti-atoms and/or anti-molecules

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Graduate Cosmic Ray induced Electromagnetic Cascades in metals

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Graduate How Can Atoms Be Split Despite the Strong Force's Attraction?

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Graduate What is a first order process in particle physics

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Undergrad Electrons not inside the nucleus?

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Graduate The SUSY F and D terms, and the scalar potential

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Undergrad Ideas for a nuclear research project

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Graduate How do quarks transform under SO(3)?

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Undergrad A layman's question about nuclear fusion

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Graduate How is positrons and anti-hydrogen created?

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Graduate Is LHC pushing the limits of naturally observable phenomena in the Universe?

  • kahoon
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Graduate Atoms of anti-matter trapped for first time.

  • Ash Small
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Graduate Nuclear Potential: Calculating Energy w/ Delta Potential

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Undergrad Atom of Neutrons: Can We Make It?

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Undergrad What is responsible for the extreme force in a nuclear bomb?

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Graduate Fusing Iron Nuclei: Ignition Temperature

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Undergrad Quick question about differences of energy output for different reactions

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Graduate Neutron spallation and capture

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Graduate What Are the Key Concepts of Friedberg's Plasma Physics in Fusion Research?

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Fusion reaction energy and columb barrier

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Can a neutral pion go to two electron anti electron pairs

  • James1991
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Graduate Converting matter into antimatter via energy?

  • AxelBoldt
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Undergrad What are the basics of fusion in particle physics?

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics related to fusion

  • Deepak247
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Graduate What Happens to Fusion Reactions at 2GeV Particle Collisions?

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Confusion about How Dirac discovered Dirac's Equation

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Undergrad Does anti-matter have a stronger gravitational pull than matter?

  • Kothar
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Graduate Is recreating the Big Bang possible?

  • Rage Crank
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Graduate How Does the Propagator Relate to the Heat Kernel on a Manifold?

  • Orbb
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Graduate Question about particles near the speed of light

  • sngtdt
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Graduate Why Aren't Atoms Made of Positrons and Antiprotons?

  • zalnas
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Graduate Hill wheeler variational equation

  • nuclei
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Graduate A jumble of basic SUSY questions (i.e. a bit confused and seeking help)

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Graduate Why Is Pure Neutron Matter Not Common Outside Extreme Conditions?

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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" (LENR): What Do People Think?

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Undergrad Can Cold Plasma Be Created and Used in Heat Pumps?

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Undergrad Why is there no odd-even staggering for electronic binding energies?

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Graduate Majorly confused over the cabibbo matrix?

  • jeebs
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Undergrad Quarks but if a proton is uud and a neutron is udd

  • harp AP 2010
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Undergrad Is it possible to calculate the difference in mass between a Proton and Neutron?

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Graduate Neutron Attenuation 1st order ODE Interpertation

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Graduate Introduction to Plasma Physics

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate The Higgs vev, the Higgs Mass, and WW-scattering

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Graduate About the determination of the bottom quark's -1/3 charge?

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Undergrad How Neutrons Decay to Charged Particles

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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of the Gluon's Wave Function

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Graduate What was the rest mass of the ZZ pair found at the LHC?

  • Bob S
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Graduate Why More W^+/- than Z^0 in Proton-Antiproton Collisions?

  • evilcman
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Graduate Deuterium bombarded with Neutrons from tritium?

  • BrianConlee
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Graduate What if electro-weak symmetry is broken at all energies?

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Undergrad What is the binding energy of a protium nucleus?

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Graduate What do they mean with real and virtual corrections ?

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Graduate What else could the LHC accelerate?

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Graduate In SSB, why shifting a field suffices to pick a corresponding vaccum?

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Undergrad Neutron energy for nuclear fission?

  • jumpjack
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Graduate Ionizing a sphere till it explodes?

  • BrianConlee
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Graduate Are there any known or theoretically proposed particles that do not

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Undergrad Cluster Decay: Definition & Overview

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Graduate Thompson's cathode ray tube experiment

  • Pranav Jha
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Graduate Why is Bremsstrahlung produced during electron-nucleus encounters?

  • wumple
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Graduate Some questions about particles being produced in certain interactions

  • jeebs
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Graduate Radiation pressure calculation (verification)

  • Bernie G
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Will Susskind's Particle Physics Lectures Result in a New Book?

  • DanP
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Graduate Koide Mass Formula for Neutrinos

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Undergrad Anti Matter vs Matter: What Happens When They Collide?

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Graduate Why Straggling Appears - A Closer Look

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Graduate Fundamental and Adjoint Representation of Gauge Groups

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Graduate Are there nuclei of only neutrons?

  • haael
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Graduate Do up and down quarks obey flavour quantum conservation?

  • Chaste
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Graduate Particle Collision: Example & Kinetic Energy

  • samckx
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Graduate Shorthand for unidentified SUSY particle

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Graduate Z Bosons to Lepton Pairs: Why Equal for All?

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Undergrad Creation of elements heavier than iron

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Undergrad Is it Possible for Nuclei to Emit Visible Photons?

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Graduate Experiment Suggests New Particle

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Graduate Gribov ambiguities in gauge theories

  • tom.stoer
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Graduate Is there color confinement in quarkgluonplasma?

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Graduate What Does It Mean for a Fireball to Be Opaque to Pair Production?

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Graduate Are there any unification models that explicitly unify colour and flavour?

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Graduate Gauge Invariance and the Photon Self-Energy Correction

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Graduate Understanding the Frictional Cooling Method in Nuclear Physics

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Graduate Can a Supernova Bomb Be Created Using Electromagnets and Uranium?

  • Kalrag
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Graduate Muonic hydrogen ground state energy

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Graduate RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius

  • Gaius Baltar
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Graduate Understanding Photodivision and Electrodivision in Electron Beam Oncology

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Undergrad Interested in nuclear fission in my life

  • derryck1234
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Undergrad Photons - most energetic ever detected

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Graduate Statistical behaviour of ideal particles in a closed box

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