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High School Why does a U-238 tamper increase nuclear yield of nuclear bomb?

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Undergrad Understanding radioactivity levels of different isotopes

  • Jimmy87
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Undergrad Why Are B Mesons Long-Lived and How Does B-Tagging Work?

  • Malamala
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High School How does the Gamow window change for different reactions?

  • TheCelt
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High School Which one is more efficient in generating high energy Gamma rays?

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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Undergrad Understand selection rules in ##\beta##-decay/EC

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Undergrad How do you get polarized charged particles?

  • BillKet
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Undergrad Tau Decay: More Pions, Less Ratio?

  • BillKet
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Undergrad How is the weak force related to a change in velocity?

  • SamRoss
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Graduate Maximum energy of X-rays from 100kV accelerating voltage

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Undergrad Error in my derivation of de Broglie's hypothesis

  • DanielR1
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Undergrad Have we observed asymptotically free quarks?

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Undergrad Why do virtual particles obey Δt ≤ h/4π ΔE?

  • LuisBabboni
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Undergrad Understanding Gluon Self-Interaction and Quark/Gluon Jet Differentiation

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Why is the weak force a force?

  • LuisBabboni
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High School Gamma rays over very large areas

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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High School Can a high energy kinetic impact stimulate nuclear reactions?

  • essenmein
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Undergrad What is the difference between sensitivity and efficiency in particle detection?

  • kelly0303
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High School How Do We Interpret the Isodose Contours of HERMES III?

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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Undergrad Which loses more energy from radiation, electrons or protons?

  • Adams2020
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Graduate High energy symmetry breaking and laws of physics?

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Graduate Developing the Feynman diagram expansion

  • ShayanJ
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Undergrad Is there anything in physics that’s random?

  • Whipley Snidelash
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Graduate Diffussion-limited aggregation and the mobility of particles

  • Sciencestd
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Graduate Construction of real gamma matrices

  • John Greger
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Undergrad Majorana Neutrinos: Evidence of Particle vs. Antiparticle?

  • Malamala
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Graduate What are the forces acting on an air particle along a fluid streamline curve?

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Undergrad How Does Binding Energy Relate to Nucleon Distance in Atomic Nuclei?

  • artis
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Undergrad Why does Majorana mass plot show downward branching for normal hierarchy?

  • Malamala
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Undergrad ATLAS and CMS see signs of Higgs->muons decay

  • mfb
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Undergrad Renormalization of scalar field theory

  • Wledig
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High School How does the LHC send same charged particles against each other?

  • docnet
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High School Why does the nucleus become unstable as the number of nucleons increases?

  • PainterGuy
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Undergrad How to calculate irradiation time for H ions on W target

  • Kostiantyn
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Graduate Spectroscopy of positronium fine structure: 4.5 sigma deviation

  • mfb
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Undergrad Is Nuclear fusion possible at room temperature with high preassure?

  • jms4
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Undergrad How to read this decay sheet (gamma emission after beta decay)

  • dRic2
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Graduate Difference between generations of quarks

  • bilzebor
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Undergrad Understanding crossing symmetry: inverse beta decay

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Undergrad How powerful would a collider have to be to observe a sphaleron?

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Undergrad Beta and gamma rays from radium

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High School Are electrons or protons attracted due to their magnetic moments?

  • Javier Lopez
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Undergrad Neutron/proton nucleon destruction by acceleration

  • BernieM
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Undergrad Electron's magnetic moment

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Undergrad Why does 1 amu equal both 931.2 MeV and 1.66e-27 kg?

  • Stephen Bulking
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Graduate What pressure would be needed to cause fusion of water?

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Undergrad Possibilty of flavor oscillation of an electron

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Undergrad No "i" in the Triple gluon vertex Feynman Rule

  • CAF123
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Graduate How does the number of particles increase the surface adsorption?

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Undergrad Why does the 238U decay chain show only the first and final half-lives?

  • nmsurobert
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High School Is the Energy Change and Barrier in Quantum Decay Constant for a Given System?

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High School Alpha particle in a force field depiction

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Graduate LHCb discovers tetraquark state with charm quarks

  • Wrichik Basu
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Graduate If Neutrinos are majorana particles, does this mean lepton number is not conserved?

  • Helena Wells
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Undergrad Why does a cyclotron only impart linear momentum?

  • bwana
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Undergrad Particle Creation function of beam energy

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High School Fundamental particles and mass quantization

  • artis
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High School Can Tritium and Tritium Fuse in Deuterium-Tritium Plasmas?

  • Flexwheeler
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Graduate Lennard Jones, 3 particles, partition function

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Graduate Neutrino decay before electroweak breaking

  • Helena Wells
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Graduate Dark matter experiment XENON1T sees an excess at low energies

  • mfb
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Undergrad T2K sees ~3 sigma evidence for neutrino CP violation

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High School Nuclear wavefunction and Bose-Einstein condensates

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Undergrad Where does the mass of ordinary matter come from?

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Undergrad Can the "same" particle be used in different experiments?

  • Souma
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High School Amount of Plasma [g] in nuclear fusion designs

  • Thomas Sturm
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Undergrad Understanding Nuclear Fusion Cross Section Diagrams

  • BrandonBerchtold
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Undergrad How does the experimentalist deal with Compton Scattering?

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad Why is the electron EDM so small in the SM?

  • Malamala
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High School What is the significance of the newly discovered isotope, Mendelevium-244?

  • Astronuc
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Undergrad Low p_t cuts in experimental measurements

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Graduate IceCube rules out last SM explanation of ANITA’s anomalous neutrinos

  • Wrichik Basu
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Undergrad Special Case of Compton Scattering

  • neilparker62
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Graduate Books/Resources related to the thermal model for particle production

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Undergrad What's the difference between T-odd and T-violation?

  • BillKet
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High School Curvature radius question for my muon beam experiment

  • faca
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Graduate Energy needed to convert a bound proton to a neutron?

  • Aakash Sunkari
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Undergrad Governing force and Neutron elastic scattering

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Undergrad Strong and Weak Nuclear forces at long ranges

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Undergrad Breaking an atom down in it's components.

  • Sebas4
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Undergrad Questions about neutron interactions

  • artis
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Undergrad Simplifying QFT expression with on-shell and off-shell conditions

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad Rewriting Feynman amplitudes and the Dirac equation

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad Spontaneous symmetry breaking from a QM perspective

  • kelly0303
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Traces in Compton Scattering Feynman Amplitudes?

  • JD_PM
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High School Exact cause of radioactive decay?

  • Darwin
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High School What is the Q Value of Beta Minus Decay?

  • harsh22902
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Undergrad Why does the trace show up while computing unpolarized cross sections?

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad Why Is Octupole Deformation Measurable in Nuclei but Not Dipole Deformation?

  • Malamala
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Undergrad Compton scattering differential cross section derivation in lab frame

  • JD_PM
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Graduate Confusions on QED renormalization

  • Sven2009
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Undergrad Do Quark Stars Contain Hexaquarks and How Do They Affect Proton Decay?

  • King Solomon
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High School How can a particle be its own antiparticle?

  • RJ Emery
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Undergrad Understanding how to derive the cross-section formula in the CoM frame

  • JD_PM
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Undergrad What are the differences between Ion Linac and Electron Linac?

  • dRic2
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High School Were antimatter tracks observed in cloud chambers before 1932?

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Undergrad Questions about the energy released by nuclear fission

  • brent1369
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Undergrad Calculating 2nd Order Scattering Amplitude: Feynman Diagrams

  • Markus Kahn
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Undergrad When is weak interaction a force?

  • snorkack
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Undergrad Low-lying excited states in nuclei

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