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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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Graduate High energy photons collapsing into small black holes?

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Graduate When Does Alpha Emission Peak in the Bi-210 to Po-210 to Pb-208 Decay Chain?

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Graduate Realistic initial timeline for LHC

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Undergrad Understanding Quadrupole Moment of Zero/Half Spin Nuclear Charge

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Graduate 7 TeV per beam compared to 1 TeV per beam

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Graduate Momentum conservation in collisions.

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Graduate Point source (radioactive)that emits 100 gamma per second

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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Mass Defect and Binding Energy in Nuclear Physics?

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Graduate How is the Tevatron able to improve their Higgs boson mass exclusion range?

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Graduate 1070 GeV in a single beam at LHC, topping Tevatron

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Graduate How Do They Create a Neutrino Beam?

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Graduate Expansion in a Small Parameter

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Graduate Weak interaction, fusion, and tunneling

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Undergrad Separation of Steel Balls in a Mixture: Understanding Particle Size and Density

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Graduate How to prove N=1.5Z for heavy nuclei?

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New LHC monitoring portal LIVE DATA

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Graduate Quark Mass and Size: Is There Any Data?

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Undergrad Can Particles Stretch in a Particle Accelerator?

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High School Why J.J Thomson use gold in his experiment for atomic model?

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Graduate Statistical Analysis in High-Energy Physics: Methods and Applications

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Graduate Where is the higgs boson located in the atom? or is it even in the atom?

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LHC Re-establishes Circulating Beams at CERN

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First pictures of LHC collision events at CMS detector

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Graduate Understanding Yukawa Matrices and Particle Masses

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Graduate What can neutrinos tell us about time?

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Graduate D* -> D + gamma BR calculation

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Undergrad Can Sun Radiation Penetrate Earth's Crust and Alter Rock Composition?

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Graduate What Is the True Significance of Gauge Symmetry in Physics?

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Graduate How Does Neutron Population Remain Stable in a Critical Mass Scenario?

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Graduate How Do Particles with Negative Energy Contribute to Hawking Radiation?

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Graduate Upper Bound of Photon Mass - Sources & Review Articles

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Graduate Questions Regarding Energy Generating Fusion

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Graduate Particle creation and annihilation and the remaining fields problem

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Undergrad What is the relationship between particle masses and fusion reactions?

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Graduate Duck on a pound VS Cherenkov radiaton cone

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Undergrad Containing Plasma - Electric & Magnetic Fields Explained

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Graduate Thermal Doppler broadening in the Mossbauer effect?

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Graduate Fusion possible with high voltage on deuterium?

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Undergrad Welcome Questions about MC Vertex

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Undergrad Understanding Neutron Kinetic and Potential Energy

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Graduate Cross section for two identical particles in the final state

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Graduate Is Simplifying Lorentz Invariant Measures by Coordinate Change Valid?

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Graduate You're welcome! Keep up the good work!

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Graduate \rho \to \pi \pi decay rate

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Undergrad Calculating Flux with Inverse Square Law for Radioactive Sources

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Bird Causes CERN Atom Smasher Shutdown

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Graduate Binding energy per nucleon / fission / fusion

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Graduate Why is the equation for beta decay written as e- = 0 and what does it mean?

  • bsodmike
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Graduate Au-196 decay: help reading tables

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Graduate What is the point of particle accelerators?

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Undergrad Electron Deflection in Magnetic Fields: Why 90 Degrees?

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Graduate Radioactive flux attenuation in air - Need Help

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Graduate Gravitation among individual particles

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Undergrad A layman a bit scared of the LHC (as always)

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Graduate C-Symmetry & P+p_bar Annihilation: Griffiths Ref. C. Baltay et al

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Graduate LHC Black Hole Formation: S Hawking's Prediction Explained

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High School Forces acting on a particle placed on a plate

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Undergrad Decay rho->eta + pion is forbidden.why?

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Graduate Neutron Anti-Neutron Anihilation

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Undergrad Beta Decay of 32 Phosphorus - Is It Positively Charged?

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Graduate How to make a neutrino interact with a target particle?

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Graduate In SUSY, do pions have SUSY-partners?

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Graduate What Makes the Three Generations of Neutrinos Unique?

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Undergrad Time Of Flight (TOF) calculator

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Graduate Experimental Proof that Neutrons are 3 Quarks?

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Graduate Does Equal Proton and Neutron Count Define an Isoscalar Nucleus?

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Graduate Which fermions are chiral besides neutrinos?

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Undergrad Visual anomalies during nuclear explosions

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Undergrad Little Boy (bomb) fission question

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Graduate CM energy for different mass/energy beams

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Graduate Shouldn't the particle and anti-particle in a meson annihilate?

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Graduate Singular external potential in a field theory?

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High School Atomic Nucleus: How Does It Get Energy?

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Graduate Nuclear explosion in space x-rays hit atmosphere.

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Graduate Understanding Isotropic Decay: Solving Jackson's Problem

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Graduate Sr-90 Dirty Bomb: Radiation Levels & Health Effects

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Graduate Energy flux in sun gives rise to polarization of plasma in sun?

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Graduate Decay process scheme of 57-Cobalt

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Graduate The neutrino its own antiparticle?

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Undergrad How Does Uranium-Lead Dating Explain Age Differences in Rock Layers?

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Graduate What Insights Do Probability Plots of Atomic Partons in Hydrogen Reveal?

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Graduate Thermal Cross Sections: Find Info on Boric Acid, O2, Uranium, Water, etc.

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Graduate Heavy Hydrogen: Proton, Muon/Tauon - Stability?

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Graduate Does binding energy mean energy has a mass?

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Graduate Can annihilation in flight produce higher energy γ-rays?

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Graduate Meaning of hypercharge in electroweak theory?

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Undergrad Is the Higgs boson already found?

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