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Graduate Meissner Effect: Levitating a Magnet & Lenz's Law

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Graduate Why are there no fractionally charged hadrons?

  • MrRobotoToo
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Undergrad Electron Diffraction: Isolating Particles

  • kooombaya
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Graduate Gauge Boson: Higgs vs Graviton

  • Deamito
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Graduate QCD Puzzle: Unsolved Equations at Atomic Nuclei Energy Scales

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Measuring Ion Temperature in Plasma: Why Use Tungsten/Molybdenum Probes?

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Graduate What Are Unknown Anomalies in Particle Physics?

  • Deepak247
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Pion Decays

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Graduate Antiparticle Mass: Dirac Equation & E=mc^2

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Graduate Why are particles produced in jets?

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Undergrad Questions about constructing a cyclotron

  • RB211
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Undergrad Can Teflon Stop Alpha Particles?

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Graduate High energy light slower than lower energies?

  • tcthmas
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Graduate Why Must $w(Q_n) = -w(Q_m)$ for $Z_{nm} \neq 0$ in Weinberg III?

  • Si
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Undergrad Particle Beam Weapon Uses & Effects

  • Kalrag
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Graduate How would the world look if all particles spin would align?

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Undergrad Electron Capture: Nucleus Capturing Revolving Electron Shell

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Graduate Why is QED being blamed for the discrepancy in proton radius measurements?

  • PAllen
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Graduate Question on calculating mean range of alpha

  • jackjoo87
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Graduate Are Gluons Real Particles or Just Mathematical Constructs?

  • Morberticus
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Graduate Muon Lifetime: Decay into Electron Antineutrino & Muon Neutrino

  • thoms2543
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Graduate Stopping or absorbing gamma rays

  • Kalrag
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Experimental measurements of decays into two photos that I have missed

  • arivero
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Undergrad Simple energy release question

  • humsafar
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Graduate Understanding Particle Degree of Freedom: 3N dof for N Particles Explained

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Undergrad How much heat can radium produce from its decay?

  • Kalrag
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Graduate Neutrino Flavor vs. Mass Eigenstate: Explaining the Difference

  • thoms2543
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Graduate Why Don't Articles Distinguish Neutrinos?

  • thoms2543
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Undergrad How does a scintillator help determine muon lifetime?

  • shadocat08
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Graduate Pion Decay: Questions from a Beginner

  • billbray
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Graduate Particles & Antiparticles: What is the Deal with Photons?

  • binbots
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Undergrad Do neutron sources play a crucial role in the function of nuclear bombs?

  • p.tryon
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Graduate Different frames of reference and particle production? a contradiction maybe?

  • jeebs
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Graduate Is LanHEP the Answer for Generating Feynman Rules from Lagrangians?

  • Neitrino
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Graduate The Mystery of Why Photons Have No Mass

  • Waveparticle
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Graduate Simple question regarding annihilaion

  • humsafar
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Graduate Particle physics lectures (TASI videos)

  • daschaich
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Graduate Detecting Single Electrons: Possibilities and Limitations

  • jonlg_uk
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Graduate Why cant we tell the mass of electron neutrinos, mu neutrinos, and tau

  • Waveparticle
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Graduate QED: Lagrangian, and Action principle

  • JustinLevy
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High School Understanding Form Factor: A Physical Meaning

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Graduate Muons and Taus: Is There a Theoretical Reason They Decay So Rapidly?

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Undergrad Why are some oil drops charged in Millikan's experiment?

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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Neutrino Interactions with Electromagnetic Force

  • Upisoft
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Graduate Finding Lorentz Vector? -Physics Noob

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Undergrad Mass Reconstruction: What Does It Mean?

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Graduate Why neutrino may have magnetic moment

  • Neitrino
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Graduate Matrix reppresentation of poincare group generators

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Undergrad Is our granite inspection table harmful?

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New improved html table of the nuclides

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Graduate Reactivity of Protons: How Reactive & Can Gas be Confined?

  • Drakkith
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Undergrad Nuclear Potential: Primary Info & Resources

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Graduate Weak force holds neutrons together?

  • granpa
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Graduate Slowed muon decay in electron degenerate matter?

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Undergrad Why Focus on Nucleus in Alpha-Particle Scattering and Not Electrons?

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Graduate I understand that free neutrons are unstable and decay within about 10

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Graduate Parity of the anti neutral kaon

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Graduate For which subatomic particles do we have empirical evidence?

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Graduate What happens when two of the evanescent particles that Hawking

  • thepemberton
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Graduate Can neutrino mass eigenstate couple to the group of SU(2)

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Graduate What Causes Mass? | Recent Nobel Prize Winner

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Graduate Is a Plasma Shield Possible for Military Vehicles?

  • Kalrag
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Graduate Questions about chiral symmetry breaking

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Graduate Understanding Proton Collisions in Particle Accelerators

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Graduate Conservation of weak hypercharge and isospin

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Graduate Chasing B: A's Journey to Catch B at Distance d

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Graduate How Can We Determine Recoil Nuclei Kinetic Energy in a Nuclear Reaction?

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Graduate LHC says quarks still elementary

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Graduate Penning Trap Question: Causes of Axial Oscillation

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Graduate Spontaneous mass formation from Energy

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Graduate Better Understanding Antimatter Annihilation?

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Graduate What's the meaning of spin in 1+1 spacetime?

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Graduate Understanding the Repulsive Strong Force and its Role in Nucleons and Quarks

  • JZR
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Undergrad Questioning Physics: Is Mass-Energy Conversion Possible?

  • wilhelm96
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Graduate Divergence of forward Bhabha/Moller scattering

  • Xela
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Watch LHC Operation in realtime

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Undergrad Particle collisions at the LHC

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Graduate Annihilation and energy occurance

  • humsafar
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Graduate Positron Emission: Exploring the Science Behind It

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Undergrad Why lead can be used for protection ?

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Graduate Possible simple reason for nuclear confinement and asymptotic freedom

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Graduate 2 strong nuclear force questions

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Graduate Can Virtual Photons Be Detected and Measured?

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Undergrad Radioactive Decay: Mean Life Time & Decay Constant

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Graduate Is making AH(Anti-Hydrogen) illegal?

  • JesterC
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Graduate Is it possible for a pion to decay into a proton and a photon?

  • Kenai
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Graduate New two-particle correlations observed in the CMS detector at the LHC

  • arivero
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Graduate Investigating Neutrino Interaction with Electron with Pythia

  • farshid2000
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What is the Numerical Listing of Particles?

  • chis
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Graduate Understanding Particles in Lattice QCD: Challenges and Potential Solutions"

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Graduate Positron-electron annihilation in matter

  • seerongo
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High School Understanding Charge Measurements

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Graduate Can We Discover a Unified Force Between Gravity and the Electroweak Interaction?

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Undergrad Muon Decay Constant: Find Mean Lifetime & Lambda

  • RK1992
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Graduate Nuclear fusion and strong force

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Graduate Does a nuclear explosion in outer space generate space waste at all?

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Graduate How is negative ion acceleration possible?

  • Strat-O
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Graduate ITER at World Energy Congress: Will 500MW from 50MW be Achieved?

  • Dr Lots-o'watts
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Graduate What is the Fusion Rate of Protons and Boron-11?

  • Drakkith
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Graduate Why are W and Z bosons considered force carriers?

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