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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

  • rhody
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Graduate Large hadrons collider [ATLAS]

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Undergrad Predicting which atoms radiate first in radioavtive materials

  • niggasnopec
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Graduate Question Concerning Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

  • Appity
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Graduate Neutron Magnetic Moment: Paramagnetic or Diamagnetic

  • cragar
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Graduate Relationship between group theory and particle physics?

  • Ulagatin
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Undergrad The Consequences of Nuclear Detonation in Volcanoes

  • yulevvv
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High School After the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, people still live there.

  • Nusc
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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 What are hard QCD processes?

  • Ancient_Nomad
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Graduate Meissner effect, thought experiment.

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Graduate Back scattering of beta perticles by foil experiment

  • JustinM
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Graduate How does gauge bundle breaking occur in Yang-Mills theory with SU(5)?

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Graduate Neutrino pair creation in electron positron scattering

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Graduate Forces involved in particle decays

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Graduate What are the practical applications of hypothesized element 126?

  • sanman
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Graduate Nuclear Collsions fusion cross section

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Graduate Create Electron from Proton Annihilation?

  • jaketodd
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Graduate Do bunched particles form a unified field?

  • jaketodd
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Undergrad Looking for information about axions.

  • Jodo Kast
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Graduate Can particle accelerators be used to create small objects like legos?

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Graduate Are effective field theories mathematically well-defined?

  • petergreat
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High School Properties and cost of tritium compared to natural radioactivity

  • Gerenuk
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Graduate Perturbation theory question (in Quarks & Leptons)

  • gop
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Graduate Understanding Lepton Number Conservation in Particle Interactions

  • Radiohannah
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Undergrad Binding energy and endothermic reactions

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Graduate Can Gravitons Escape Black Holes? The Curious Case of Massless Particles

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Undergrad Does a Moving Neutron Have an Electric Field?

  • cragar
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Graduate Energy difference between accelerated particles and Jets

  • Chelle12
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Graduate Build Your Own Cyclotron: Tips and Tricks for Homemade Cyclotron Construction"

  • fys iks!
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Graduate Can LHC at 3.5 TeV discover Higgs or SUSY beyond Tevatron reach?

  • ensabah6
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Graduate Electroweak stars, nonconservation of baryon and lepton number

  • bcrowell
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Graduate N=1 SUSY: How Many Superpartners for a Boson/Fermion?

  • Femto
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Graduate A few newbie questions about the LHC.

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Undergrad Emission probability calculation (quick and easy question)

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Graduate Why is the Higgs harder to detect than the top quark?

  • kab761
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Graduate Why there's more matter than anti-matter?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Is the strong force color or flavor, and why does it increase with distance?

  • edpell
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Graduate Does light energy counterbalance dark energy like Newton's third law suggests?

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Graduate Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (B10->B11)

  • ikjadoon
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Gluon Mass and SU(3) Symmetry Violation?

  • JustinLevy
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Graduate Why not collide a 7 TeV and 3.5 TeV beam at the LHC in the same direction

  • superpaul3000
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Graduate What is the Higgs particle and what does it do for us?

  • edpell
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Undergrad Quark Combinations for Protons and Neutrons

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High School What is the weak nuclear force

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Graduate Bunched electrons: How many and how fast?

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Graduate Do Gamma Rays Spread Evenly or Randomly in Experimental Designs?

  • PhysicsLearne
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Graduate LHC Beam Energies: Highest Possible Energy

  • Gear300
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Graduate The Standard Model (What Don't I know?)

  • MrJohnnyPrice
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Graduate Neutron microscopic cross section data

  • PBurke1985
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Undergrad Is the Size of Hydrogen and Carbon's Nucleus the Same?

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Graduate How is broken symmetry really observed?

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Graduate Whats the difference between nuclear spin and isospin?

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Graduate Can Protons Be Produced in Electron-Positron Annihilation?

  • noon0788
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High School How particle physics is visualized

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Graduate Opinions Sought on Hawking Radiation and High Energy Collisions

  • Dav333
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Graduate Force messenger particles -graviton

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Graduate What does dσ/dΩ represent in terms of particle scattering?

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Undergrad So everything ISNT particle based?

  • deneco4
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What equation is this math problem?

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Undergrad Finding Carmelita's mass from canoe displacement during seat exchange

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Graduate What's the classical picture of phi^4 scalar field theory?

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Graduate Spinless Electron-Muon Scattering (Halzen-Martin)

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Graduate BFKL literature recommendations

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Graduate Function of W+, W- and Z bosons?

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Graduate Are W and Z bosons responsible for alpha, beta and gamma decay?

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Graduate What is Colour (in terms of Quarks)?

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Undergrad Why do particles acquire mass through the Higgs field?

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Graduate Significance of L/E in neutrino oscillations

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Graduate Can a neutron star withstand a bombardment of neutrons?

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High School Pions, Muons, Kaons, Tau, Neutrinos

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Graduate Energy conservation in e-e+ annihilation

  • maverick280857
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Graduate Neutrinos penetration of neutron stars or white drawfs

  • ensabah6
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Graduate Gamma radioactive decay of anti-particles

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Graduate Where does released energy come from if missing mass becomes binding energy

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Undergrad Most stable nuclei are magnetic

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Graduate Is Masslessness Possible for Pointlike Particles in Our 3D Universe?

  • Daveman20
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Graduate Interpreting (n,n*3) and (n,3n) ENDF Charts

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Graduate Why do neutral kaons oscillate but neutrinos don't form mass eigenstates?

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Graduate Why is the eta meson's composition known as the singlet state?

  • Manman
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Graduate Physical interpretation of Parity?

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Undergrad Do Neutrons Feel Strong Nuclear Force?

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Graduate Spin of an elementary particle

  • Daveman20
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Graduate Rapiditiy and center of mass energy

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Graduate What is a moduli space and why is O(d,d,R) divided by O(d,R)×O(d,R)?

  • wam_mi
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Graduate Can splitting photons create entangled particles with correlated charge?

  • Engima
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Graduate Interpreting the Physical Function of the Hamiltonian in Classical Physics

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Graduate Understanding Hadron Structure through Electron-Positron Collisions

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Graduate Does capturing neutrons turn hydrogen into deuterium and affect the experiment?

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Undergrad I made liquid oxygen today. I think

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Graduate The wide disparity between the decay tif a neutron and a protonme o

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Graduate Energy Conservation in Neutrino Propagation

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High School What is the physical appearance of a proton?

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Undergrad Magnetic field is made of virtual photons?

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Graduate Why did quark-gluon plasma exist 13 billion years ago but not on Earth?

  • BrianL
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Graduate How Does the Casimir Operator Function in SU(2) Algebra?

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Undergrad Understanding Neutrality in Alpha/Beta Decay

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Graduate Landau's argument for the Lagrangian of a free particle

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