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Undergrad Lifetime of a decaying nucleus changes with temperature?
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Graduate Can Two Neutrinos Form a Black Hole?
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Graduate Confused about nuclear binding energy
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Undergrad Understanding the Strong Force: Protons and Neutrons in Collision
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Graduate Neutrinos That Need Directions
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Graduate Neutrino ocsillations, a question.
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Graduate Mediators and propagators of particle interactions
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Undergrad Understanding Binding Energy and Mass in Nuclear Reactions: A Basic Guide
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Graduate How Do Virtual Photons Influence the Range of Electromagnetic Interactions?
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Graduate New finding with matter/anti-matter?
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Graduate Predicting the charge of a W boson
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Graduate Understanding Fission Reactions: Calculating Energy & Mass in Joules and MeV
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Graduate What's the hard bremsstrahlung emission?
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Graduate Neutron generation from T(d,n)
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Graduate GUT viable w/o SUSY? Could GUT be physically wrong?
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Graduate Fermilab's Tevatron finds another CP violation
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Graduate How Can Particles of Matter Be Massless?
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Graduate Nuclear physics and the oil spill.
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Graduate Baryon singlet representation for SU(3) flavour symmetry
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Graduate What is the connection between path integrals and cross sections?
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Graduate What is the correct charge conservation at a vertex in a decay process?
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Graduate The weak force and effective coupling
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Graduate K+ Decay: Is the Feynman Diagram I Drew Correct?
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Graduate Gravity's Impact on W and Z Bosons
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Graduate Are particles frame independant?
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Graduate Why Alpha Particle Decay Q Leads to Lifetime Change
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Graduate Particle collisions with magnetic forces
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Graduate Representations of the Poincare group
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Graduate Is the Nucleus Just a Clump of Quarks or Are Protons and Neutrons Grouped?
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Graduate QED in 3D -> QED in 1D, what changes?
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Graduate Distribution of particle energy in 3He fusion
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Graduate Explain GIM & FCNCs: Quark Gen, Cabbibo Suppression
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Graduate Bhabha Scattering: Relative Sign Difference & Fermi Statistics
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Graduate 2 questions - virtual particles and quarks?
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Graduate Higgs field issues of detection?
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Graduate Are gamma rays produced in fusion reactions?
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Graduate K+ Decay: Speculative or Feasible?
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Graduate What Are Non-Minimal Couplings in Particle Interactions?
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Graduate Building a Betatron At Home - Parts, Power Sources & Radiation Levels
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Undergrad How to read a Gamma Ray Spectrum
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Graduate Is There an Infinitely Small Particle That Makes Up Everything?
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Undergrad Need help making a cloud chamber
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Graduate Inverse Beta Decay: Can Free Protons Change to Neutrons?
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Graduate Electron-positron annihilation as an energy source?
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Undergrad Is it possible to make non-radiactive gold?
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Graduate Problems on quantum field operators in QFT
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Graduate Can sound waves disrupt atomic particles?
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Graduate QFT Charges & Gauge Group Root Lattices Explained
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Graduate Do Gluon's have a magnetic dipole moment ?
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Graduate Particle Equations: Electron Probability & Radial Distance
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Graduate Strong Nuclear force (Yukawa's interaction Vs QCD)
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Undergrad Is the Meissner effect responsible for a magnet floating above a superconductor?
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Undergrad Alpha decay and its relationship to speed
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Undergrad Is it possible to build a vertical particel accelator?
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Graduate What is the threshold energy for gamma+e→3e and gamma→e⁺e⁻ reactions?
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Graduate Photon Polarization Sum - Simplifying Amplitudes with Photon Polarizations
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Graduate Exploring the Possibility of a W-(or W+) Boson Possessing Charge
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Graduate What is the significance of global fit in EW precision tests?
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Graduate Feynman's Paradox: Solving the Mystery of the Rotating Disk | Solution Revealed
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Graduate Does the Z boson couple to photons?
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Graduate Feynman Rules : Propagator Question
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Download Yukawa's 1935 Paper - Proc. Phys. Math. Soc. Japan 17 48
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Graduate Are all of the quantum numbers of anti-particles opposite
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Graduate Why Can't UUU & DDD Show on Spinhalf Diagrams?
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Graduate Need help with understanding a Weinberg article
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Graduate Charm's Curious Origin: A Quarky Mystery!
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Graduate Problems with electromagnet force and weak force
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Graduate Why does QED work so well? - a question on EFTs
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Undergrad Understanding Attenuation Coefficient of X-rays: Gas, Liquid, or Solid State?
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Graduate QCD Coulomb Singularity: Quarkonium w/ 2 Gluons
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High School What is Plasma and Why is it 99% of the Universe?
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Graduate Mass Spectrometry: Determining Unknown Radiation Properties
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Graduate Day at LHC timelapsed to 4:45 minutes
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Graduate Conserved charge as a generator of symmetry, Peskin & Schroeder
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Graduate QCD theta angle and Neutron electric dipole moment
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Graduate What Makes Mass Essential in Understanding Physics?
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Graduate Meaning of \gamma{\mu}, \gamma{\nu} in Rows 1,2,3
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Graduate Gravity is made of gravitons ?
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Graduate Messenger photon in electromagnetism intractions
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Graduate Is there such thing as rest mass.
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Graduate Does it take a long time or a short time for gamma rays to reach the photosphere
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Graduate Time reversal and Coulomb interaction
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Undergrad Why Is Helium Safe to Inhale but Alpha Particles Are Harmful?
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Graduate How Will LHC Discoveries Impact Everyday Technology and Society?
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Graduate Particle collision/interaction
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Graduate Neutrino-AntiNeutrino Collisions: EM Field?
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High School Small Question on Transmutation
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Graduate What is transversity and transverse spin?
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Undergrad Handling Particles: A Non-Physicist's Query
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Graduate Atlas Experiment: CERN Video, link: All LHC Experiment docs
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Graduate Large hadrons collider [ATLAS]
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Undergrad Predicting which atoms radiate first in radioavtive materials
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Graduate Question Concerning Neutrino Mass Hierarchy
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Graduate Neutron Magnetic Moment: Paramagnetic or Diamagnetic
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Graduate Relationship between group theory and particle physics?
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Undergrad The Consequences of Nuclear Detonation in Volcanoes
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High School After the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, people still live there.
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Graduate Difference in binding energies
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Graduate Problem: Prove invariance of momentum factor
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Graduate Hard QCD Processes: Definition & Overview
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