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Graduate XRay Help -- Xrays are generated "accidentally" in a HV machine
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Undergrad Have we observed asymptotically free quarks?
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Undergrad Virtual particles and Heisenberg
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Undergrad Understanding Gluon Self-Interaction and Quark/Gluon Jet Differentiation
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Undergrad Why is the weak force a force?
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High School Gamma rays over very large areas
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High School Can a high energy kinetic impact stimulate nuclear reactions?
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Undergrad What is the difference between sensitivity and efficiency in particle detection?
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High School How Do We Interpret the Isodose Contours of HERMES III?
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Undergrad Loss of electron & proton energy due to radiation
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Graduate High energy symmetry breaking and laws of physics?
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Graduate Developing the Feynman diagram expansion
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Undergrad Is there anything in physics that’s random?
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Graduate Diffussion-limited aggregation and the mobility of particles
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Graduate Construction of real gamma matrices
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Undergrad Majorana Neutrinos: Evidence of Particle vs. Antiparticle?
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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?
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Undergrad Majorana Mass Plot: Normal & Inverted Hierarchy
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Undergrad ATLAS and CMS see signs of Higgs->muons decay
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Undergrad Renormalization of scalar field theory
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High School How does the LHC send same charged particles against each other?
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High School Why does the nucleus become unstable as the number of nucleons increases?
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Undergrad Calculating t for H Ions on W Target @2.5 MeV & 100µA F=10^16
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Graduate Spectroscopy of positronium fine structure: 4.5 sigma deviation
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Undergrad Is Nuclear fusion possible at room temperature with high preassure?
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Undergrad How to read this decay sheet (gamma emission after beta decay)
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Graduate Difference between generations of quarks
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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?
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Undergrad Neutron/proton nucleon destruction by acceleration
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Undergrad Electron's magnetic moment
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Undergrad The Tritium Puzzle: Unravelling Mass-Energy Equivalence
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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
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Graduate How does the number of particles increase the surface adsorption?
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Undergrad Deciphering Decay Chains: Understanding the Complexity of Radioactive Decay
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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 a new tetraquark state
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Graduate If Neutrinos are majorana particles, does this mean lepton number is not conserved?
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Undergrad Why does a cyclotron only impart linear momentum?
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Undergrad Particle Creation function of beam energy
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High School Fundamental particles and mass quantization
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High School Can Tritium and Tritium Fuse in Deuterium-Tritium Plasmas?
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Graduate Lennard Jones, 3 particles, partition function
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Graduate Neutrino decay before electroweak breaking
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Graduate Dark matter experiment XENON1T sees an excess at low energies
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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 Understanding the mass of ordinary matter
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Undergrad Can the "same" particle be used in different experiments?
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High School Amount of Plasma [g] in nuclear fusion designs
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Undergrad Understanding Nuclear Fusion Cross Section Diagrams
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Undergrad How does the experimentalist deal with Compton Scattering?
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Undergrad Why is the electron EDM so small in the SM?
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High School What is the significance of the newly discovered isotope, Mendelevium-244?
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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
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Undergrad Special Case of Compton Scattering
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Graduate Books/Resources related to the thermal model for particle production
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Undergrad Difference Between T-Odd & T-Violation?
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High School Curvature radius question for my muon beam experiment
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Graduate Energy needed to convert a bound proton to a neutron?
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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.
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Undergrad Questions about neutron interactions
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Undergrad Simplifying an expression given (on-shell & off-shell) conditions
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Undergrad Rewriting Feynman amplitudes and the Dirac equation
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Undergrad Spontaneous symmetry breaking from a QM perspective
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Traces in Compton Scattering Feynman Amplitudes?
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High School Exact cause of radioactive decay?
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High School What is the Q Value of Beta Minus Decay?
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Undergrad Why does the trace show up while computing unpolarized cross sections?
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Undergrad Why Is Octupole Deformation Measurable in Nuclei but Not Dipole Deformation?
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Undergrad Understanding the (polarized) cross section for Compton Scattering by electrons
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Graduate Confusions on QED renormalization
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Undergrad Do Quark Stars Contain Hexaquarks and How Do They Affect Proton Decay?
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High School How can a particle be its own antiparticle?
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Undergrad Understanding how to derive the cross-section formula in the CoM frame
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Undergrad What are the differences between Ion Linac and Electron Linac?
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High School Anti-matter discovery before 1932?
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Undergrad Questions about the energy released by nuclear fission
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Undergrad Calculating 2nd Order Scattering Amplitude: Feynman Diagrams
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Undergrad When is weak interaction a force?
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Undergrad Low-lying excited states in nuclei
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Graduate "Reversal" of Nuclear Decay in Beta Emitters
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Undergrad Building a muon Cherenkov detector
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Undergrad Are Hadrons and Gluons Symmetric Against Interchange of Colours?
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Graduate Predicting the positive parity and zero spin of the Higgs boson?
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Undergrad The SO(3) group in Group Theory
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High School How Does Nucleon Shape Relate to Quark Number and Electric Quadrupole Moment?
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Graduate W+/W- bosons ratio in proton-proton collision
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Undergrad Looking for Experimental Data on Isotopes (Nuclear Physics and Engineering)
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Undergrad Estimating decay yields from fits to these distributions
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