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Graduate How many mesons and baryons are there?
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Graduate Can Loop Quantum Gravity Be Tested in Collider Experiments?
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Graduate Calculating the Density of a Neutron
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Graduate Could Halo Nucleons Affect Electron Capture in Nuclear Decay?
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Graduate What is the basic idea behind lattice theory?
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Graduate Exists Neutronium On Earth? Why Not Create?
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Undergrad Inclusice & Exclusive processes?
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Graduate Is gravity repulsive at particle scales?
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Graduate Gamma ray spectroscopy: Germanium detector efficiency calibration.
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Graduate How is it also a graviton particle as in string theory
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Graduate Solve Quadratic w/ Grassmann Variables & NxN Matrix
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High School When does the LHC find out if higgs boson exist?
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Graduate What is the role of the Higgs boson in giving mass to particles?
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Undergrad Pair Production Energy: Formula & Wavelength
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Graduate Dirac-delta term in a non-relativistic interaction
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Graduate Can the Standard Model Work Without the Higgs Boson?
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Graduate LHC First Results: Summary and Analysis
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Graduate Local vs. global charge conservation
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Graduate Time dependent annihilation op
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Graduate Gamma spectrum Na-22: Peak origins
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Graduate What are the implications of the possible P and CP breaking at RHIC?
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Graduate Can You Build a Cyclotron at Home?
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Graduate Is the electron and proton's mass affected when they form an atom?
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Graduate Coulomb barrier in alpha decay
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Graduate Purpose of tracking detectors with stereo design
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High School Are cyclotrons really use for some purpose
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Graduate What are space-like and time-like virtual photons?
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Graduate What is this H+ particle, is it related to the Higgs Bosons and is it proven?
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Graduate Pion Annihilation: Can Neutral Pions Really Convert to Photons?
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Graduate What changes under charge conjugation
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Graduate Why Do Matter-Antimatter Pairs Annihilate Instead of Sticking Together?
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Graduate Binding energy per nucleon for atoms of low mass number
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Undergrad Explanation of radioactive decay
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Graduate Can positive energy nucleons be bound together in nuclear forces?
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Graduate What is the relationship between the strong force and E=mc2?
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Graduate Scattering of a scalar particle on a spin-1/2 particle
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Graduate Is the Top Quark Larger than a Proton?
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Graduate How Does the Higgs Field Affect Particle Speeds in Feynman Diagrams?
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Graduate Slow Neutron Fission in Uranium 235: Exploring the Why
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Graduate Is Three Particle Pion Decay Possible?
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Undergrad Where does the energy from Nuclear Fission comes from?
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Graduate Does Charmonium Decay into Two Photons Violate Parity Conservation?
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Graduate Optimizing ROI for Photon Attenuation Experiment
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Graduate How do you interpret quadratic terms in the gauge field in a Lagrangian?
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Undergrad Link between momentum transfer and distance
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Graduate Advice on a derivation from Guage Fixing Lagrangian to Equation or motion?
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Graduate Reactor Neutrons: Seeing Surface Area not Projected Cross Section?
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Undergrad *Particles to biological cells?*
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Graduate Density matrix to represent polarization, what is this? References anyone?
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Graduate What is the physical interpretation of f(0) in the optical theorem?
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Undergrad Weird question about Nuclear Weapons
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Graduate Why is there a mass defect in the nucleous?
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Graduate What Causes a Nuclear Fizzle in Chain Reactions?
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Graduate How Are B-Bbar Pairs Produced at the LHCb?
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Graduate How is the threshold for Cerenkov counters calculated?
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Graduate Radon: Explaining Cumulative Exposure Risk
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Graduate Spin of the Pion: Neutral Decay Proves Integral Spin
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Graduate Does Charge Conjugation Flip Spin?
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Graduate Can Laser Beam Increase Alpha-Decay of Uranium?
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Graduate Is the spherical shape of atomic nuclei experimentally validated?
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Graduate Two questions about angular momentum in the nuclear shell model?
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Graduate Symmetry breaking domain walls
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Graduate Resources for pi-N scattering?
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Undergrad How a centrifuge separates particles by density
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Undergrad Floating Paper on an Electron Matrix
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Graduate Measuring Temperature of Particles in Motion
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Graduate Is the Higgs Vacuum Energy-Momentum Affected by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?
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Graduate What is the significance of transverse mass in experimental physics?
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Graduate What are the decay reactions of uranium-235 with neutron collisions?
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Graduate What Are the Coefficients and Stable Ratios in the Nuclear Liquid Drop Model?
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I created a Black Hole in my Living Room
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Undergrad Normalization, reweighting, and the scale factor:
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High School Solving Radioactive Decay: Half-Life and Decay Problems
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Graduate How did Gibbs come up with the idea that particles are indistinguishable?
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Graduate Particles Overview: Learn About Subatomic Particles
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Graduate What are the Feynman diagrams for tree-level 5-gluon scattering?
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Undergrad Can Neutrons Emit Photons? Understanding the Science Behind It
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Graduate Randomness of quantom particles.
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Graduate Questions about the baryon octet and decuplet?
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Graduate Virtual particles and Einstein energy relation
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Undergrad Internal forces on a system of particles
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Graduate What Are the Four Degrees of Freedom in the Higgs Field?
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Graduate What is track momentum in nuclear emulsion experiments?
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Graduate US Institutions Participating in LHC Experiments and Accelerator
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Graduate What are the Benefits of Using Quark Diagrams in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Penrose's "The Road to Reality" - Objection to Broken Electroweak Symmetry?
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Graduate Solve the Spin Challenge: Explaining Fundamental Particles to a Layman
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Graduate Quark spatial change in nucleons & nuclear stability
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Graduate A Query about Pair Production and Electron-Positron Annihilation
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Graduate How Do Quark-Antiquark Pairs Form Mesons in Electron-Positron Collisions?
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The difference between a nuclear physicist and nuclear chemist is
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Graduate The SNF and whether particles touch
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Graduate Neutral Pion Decay: Why Can't it Produce Three Photons?
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Graduate Why are neutrinos always lefthanded?
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Graduate Helium-3 & Helium-4: Bosonic vs. Fermionic Properties
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Undergrad How come there are no neutron atoms?
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Graduate Is CP Violation Evolving Over Time and Explaining Baryogenesis?
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Graduate Puzzling Lefthanded Neutrinos in Beta-Decay
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