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Graduate What Is the Origin of Lead Isotope Pb-204?

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Graduate QCD Calculation for e+e- Annihilation: Quarks, Gluons, & Hadrons

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Graduate What if one stand in the middle of a composite boson?

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Graduate Can Antiparticles Reverse the Arrow of Time?

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Undergrad What is decay length in particle physics?

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Graduate Is the Graviton Really Massless?

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High School Physics Basics: Nucleus, Nuclide, Neutron, Electron & Proton

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Graduate Explanation of minimum ionizing radiation

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Graduate Nuclear force as residual color force

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Graduate Bethe-Bloch Formula: Charge and Energy Deposited by Particles

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Graduate Does the sum of perturbation expansions in QED and QCD converge?

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LHC First Physics: Press Release & Info

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Graduate Cosmic rays - minimum ionizing particles ?

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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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Undergrad Considering writing essay about laser fusion?

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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?

  • JustinLevy
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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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