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Graduate Why four components? not 8 components or more?
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Graduate Number of 4-fermion, 2-derivative Lorentz invariants
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Graduate Explore the World of Baryons: Links to Learn More
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Graduate Analytic properties of amplitudes
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Graduate Understanding Γ5 & Chiral Symmetry in QFT
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Graduate Understanding Matrix Inversion in SL(2,C)
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Graduate Questions about *classical* gauge field theory (Abelian and Non-Abelian)
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Graduate EM and Gravitational binding energy for quarks
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Graduate What if the Higgs is not found by LHC and Tev, nor anything else
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Graduate Radioactive magnetism as propulsion
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Graduate Is a matter-antimatter annihilation just a particle turning around in time?
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Undergrad Fission Bombs & the Strong Nuclear Force
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Graduate Nuclear and gravitational force related?
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Graduate Understanding mass gap in Yang-Mills theory
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Graduate Why do probabilities distinguish between multiplet states?
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High School Particles vs Waves: Properties Differences
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Graduate Roots of Lie Algebra (Jones book)
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Graduate Can you find out the date of a radioactive material wothout
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Graduate Pb^208 - Pb^208 collisions and vacuum metastability disasters
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Graduate Why is anti-neutrino called so?
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Graduate Faster than Light: Mystery of Sun & Big Bang
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Graduate What are the properties and characteristics of charginos?
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Graduate Can Antimatter Particles Be Harnessed as Weapons Without Immediate Detonation?
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Graduate Bethe-Bloch : energy loss to a single electron?
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Graduate Beta Negative Decay: Is Mass Defect Calculated Correctly?
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Graduate Kappa Meson (800MeV): Decay Constant Value
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High School Why does the size of a radioactive sample matter?
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Graduate Is CP Violation the Key to Understanding Matter and Antimatter Domination?
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Graduate Mass gap in Yang-Mills theories
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Graduate Strangelets suspended in ambient gas?
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Undergrad Why Are Madame Curie's Notebooks Still Radioactive?
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Graduate What motions do quarks make in a particle?
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The Infinity of the Smallest Particle
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Graduate How can I amplify a weak PMT signal without creating too much error?
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Graduate Calculating radiation dose from flux
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Graduate Parity of [tex]^{9}_{5}B^{5}[/tex]
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Graduate Why Are Neutrinos So Confusing?
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Graduate Cosmic rays and their detection
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Graduate Why are gauge fields bosons and always spin-1?
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Graduate What Are the Effects of Gamma Radiation on Carbon 60?
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Graduate Superconducting Super Collider still worth building after LHC?
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Graduate Binding energy after fission and fusion
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Graduate What symmetries does the standard model lagrangian possess?
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Graduate Why is spin-1 field described by a vector field?
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Graduate Reggezation. How does it come about?
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Graduate Antimatter and negative energy
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Graduate What is the geometric foundation of the standard model?
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Graduate Higher order derivatives in field theories
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Graduate Question about the Mass, Volume and Shape of Elementary Particles
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Graduate What has radio got to do with this activity?
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Graduate Trouble Understanding Boson Decay
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Graduate Variable mass for strange matter?
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Graduate Particles as different states of a matter field.
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Undergrad Nagasaki Atomic Mushroom Cloud Ring: What Caused It?
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Graduate Derivation of Decay Chain Formulae
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Graduate Can anyone recommend references for four particle production calculations?
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Graduate Fourier transform field solutions
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Graduate Difference hard / semi-hard scattering
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Undergrad Meaning: Inclusive / Exclusive Scattering
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Graduate Gravity as a Residual Effect of the Strong Nuclear Force?
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Graduate New Proton Measurements: 4% Smaller - Implications
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Graduate Question about Natural Units in High Energy Physics
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Graduate Quick question about positive beta decay and mass defect?
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Graduate Can Antimatter weapons generate quark-gluon plasma?
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Undergrad Half Life of radioactive element
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Graduate Computing vacuum expectation values
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Graduate Modifying Endoergic Nuclear Reaction to Exoergic
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Graduate Coleman's Instanton and Level Splitting in Double Well
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Graduate How Do Glue and the Higgs Mechanism Contribute to Particle Mass?
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Graduate Probabality of jumping of e in K-e capture.
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Graduate Is it possible: Plasma Thrower
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Graduate SM Higgs ruled out over wide range (26 July announcement)
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Graduate Any good reference on construction of irreducible representations of SU(N)?
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Graduate Are W and Z Bosons Considered Gauge Bosons?
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Graduate Nuclear diamters will a meson traverse?
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Graduate What does next to next leading order calculations mean?
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Undergrad Purpose of the weak nuclear force?
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Graduate Calculating temperature of electron beam
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Graduate Higgs Boson and it's nickname the 'god particle'
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Graduate What is the Kernel Approach in Non-Parametrised Unbinned Analysis?
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Graduate Understanding the Standard Model
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Graduate Parametrization of su(2) group
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Graduate Vacuum Metastability: Could We Set Off a Catastrophe?
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Graduate How does force mediator transfer generate an attractive force?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Neutrino Oscillations: What is the Coherence Length?
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Graduate Question from Jones-Groups,Reps and Physics
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Graduate What is the Leading Color Approximation in QCD?
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Graduate Why protons/neutrons are not destroyed in nuclear reaction?
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Graduate Phenomenological Nuclear Theory
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Undergrad Radium 226 Dangers & Measurement: Facts & Safety Tips
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Undergrad Is a Moderator Used in Nuclear Bombs?
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Graduate What Happens When You Smash Two Electrons Together at High Velocity?
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Graduate Branching fraction of B0 -> K* mu mu decay
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Graduate Coulomb correction for beta decay spectrum
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High School Can Farnsworth Fusors create fusion energy like the sun?
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Graduate Do elementary particles know how old they are?
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Undergrad Question about ionization process
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Graduate Can Iron Fusion Reactors Achieve Controllable States and Optimal Temperatures?
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Graduate Heard of these even more elementary particles
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