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Graduate Is an atom's nucleus a single particle?
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Graduate Antimatter Problem + Arrow of Time
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Graduate Are Endothermic Nuclear Reactions Possible in Nature?
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Graduate When 2 particle beams meet head on
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Graduate B meson from proton antiproton collision
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Graduate Partial Internal Conversion Coefficient: Definition & Example
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Graduate Feynman Diagram Question, Antiparticle
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High School Why actually are some elements radioactive?
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Graduate No mini b/h at LHC because h/e/p collide with earth every day?
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Undergrad Antimatter - a kind of a matter?
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Graduate Who Deserves Credit for Predicting the Higgs Particle?
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Graduate In particle physics, what does 'coupling' mean?
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Graduate Space-based particle accelerator
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Graduate Why can an electron-positron collider only produce particles with spin 1?
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Graduate What keep the nucleous from colapsing into its self
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Undergrad Neutron Generators: Build, Usage, Pictures, Plasma Focus
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Graduate All the lepton masses from G, pi, e
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Graduate Lagrangian for fields AND particles?
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Undergrad How are branching ratios determined? by experiment only?
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Graduate Why is Muon Charge Ratio Positive?
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Undergrad Does strong force = gravity at very small distances?
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Graduate What Happens When Differing Quantities of Matter and Antimatter Annihilate?
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Undergrad Classification of Subatomic Particles: Groups & Examples
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Undergrad Zero Mass Particles: Neutrinos & Photons
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Graduate Neutron Production and Capture: Can Neutrons from Deuterium be Used for Fusion?
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Graduate Restoring and breaking SU(2)xU(1)
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Graduate Photomultiplier Scintillator Cosmic Ray level monitoring
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Graduate Exploring the LHC: The Proton-Proton Collider and Its Purpose
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Graduate Are Tachyons Relevant in Modern Physics?
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Graduate Elementary argument against longitudinal photons?
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Graduate Matter/Antimatter Collision Radius
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Graduate Higgs Field and Fluid Dynamics
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Graduate Gauge redundancy and Discrete space time
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Graduate Calculation trafo chiral multiplet
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Graduate Understanding Weak Interaction Field in Beta Decay
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Graduate Equivalency: particle with energy
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Graduate Higgs and Lattice calculations
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High School Nuclear Physics Notes: A Summary from Canada
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Undergrad Antigravity Particle: Does It Just Speed Off Into Sky?
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Graduate Has proton decay falsified SO(10) GUT?
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Graduate Antimatter: Production, storage and gravity experiments
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Mysterious Internal Reactions: Quarks, Electricity, and People
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Graduate The photon as a mediator particle
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Graduate How is the strength of fundamental forces measured?
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Graduate Unitless constants and unitized forces
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Graduate Obtaining range from bethe-bloch formula
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Graduate Can someone help me understand the factors in the Breit-Wigner formula?
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Graduate Identifying the Forces of the Weak Angle Coupling Constant: Spin or Charge?
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Graduate Why energy absorbing after Fe and energy realising before Fe ?
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Graduate What makes a material fissile?
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Graduate Inverse square law with flat detector
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What is the CERN Antiproton Decelerator and why is it important?
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Graduate Complexity, The Standard Model and Higgs
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Graduate Why Does Alpha & Beta Particle Emission Occur in Radioactive Nuclei?
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Graduate Compare and contrast Electron and Nucleon States
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Graduate Lorandite Detection of Solar Neutrino Flux - Alshar's
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Graduate What are the Significant Components of the Compton Spectrum?
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Graduate Could an Orbiting Cloud Chamber Effectively Capture High-Energy Cosmic Rays?
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Graduate What are the best resources for studying the nuclear model and cluster model?
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Graduate Calculating Multiloop Diagrams in Phys.Lett.B267:382- 388,1991
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Graduate Detecting Dark Matter: How Scientists Differentiate Between WIMPs and Neutrinos
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Graduate How can I build a large alpha particle generator for He++ production?
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Graduate Schwarzschild Proton: Thoughts & Paper Review
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Graduate Beyond LHC: NewScientist: by Jessia Griggs
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Undergrad Can we accurately estimate radiation risk based on dose measurements?
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Graduate How would a photon or neutrino interact within a quantum system? Wh
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Graduate Can Einstein's theory explain the search for the Higgs Boson at LHC?
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Graduate Collision of Electrons: What Happens to Incident Electron?
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Graduate Scattering of a Neutron and Proton
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Graduate Feynman Looking for A Particle Version of QFT
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Graduate Is nondetection of SUSY @ Tev a problem low energy SUSY?
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High School Understanding Nuclear Forces: A Middle Schooler's Guide
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Graduate Molecules with 100 or so electrons to annihilate faster
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Undergrad Carbon-14 Decay: Dose We Receive from Natural Radiation
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Graduate Problem For Structure of Nuclei - Enigmatic
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Graduate Nuclear fusion using a plasma jet
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Graduate Cluster decomposition of the S-matrix
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Graduate Is the existence of strangelets predicted by the standard model?
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Graduate Is Electroweak Interaction a Unified Force at High Temperatures?
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Graduate Question about conservation of lepton and baryon
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Graduate Wiki Quote 1 - Higgs Mechanism?
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Graduate Understanding Neutron Beta Decay: The Role of W Boson and Energies Involved
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Graduate How can a free elementary particle really be a particle
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Graduate Wiki Quote-2 - Higgs Mechanism
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Undergrad Effects of time on particles in an active synchrotron
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Graduate Why do we need particles in our theories?
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Graduate Peskin & Schroeder QFT 5.6 Need help
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Undergrad What Does "sr" Stand For in Cosmic Ray Flux Units?
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High School Radium's Appearance: Can You See It?
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Undergrad Conversion of Electrons into Neutrons
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Graduate Impossibility of self constrained system of charged particles
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Graduate What Are the Latest Developments in Russia's Ion Accelerator Technology?
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Graduate What is meant by the term gauge singlet ?
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Graduate Electric quadrupole moment and nucleus shap
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Undergrad Is Antimatter Naturally Occurring in Outer Space or Only Created on Earth?
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Undergrad Understanding Radiation Sickness: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
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Undergrad Calculate Gravitational Forces Among Objects: jKarlos' Guide
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Graduate Help! Quick Question on Calculating Quark Jet Branching Ratios
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Graduate Quick question about about a Pion decay
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