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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?

  • HarryDaniels
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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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Graduate Is an atom's nucleus a single particle?

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Undergrad Need help understanding Half life, decay constant & activity equations

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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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