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Graduate String theory - Homology and Homotopy
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Undergrad Calculate Range of Strong Nuclear Force with Gluon Energy
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Graduate Pauli lubanski pseudo vector in spin representation
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Graduate Limit at which Strong Nuclear force = Electromagnetism
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Graduate Could GUT be wrong (i.e unrealized in nature)?
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Undergrad How to view light absorption by atoms
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Graduate Why Proton-to-Neutron Conversion Does Not Happen All the Time
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Graduate High Temperaure Plasma's behavior with other solids and liquids a Room Temp
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Graduate Understanding Decay Angle of Spin Angular Momentum
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Graduate Quantum numbers of a field acquiring vacuum expectation value
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Graduate Understanding Quark Color Charges: The Role of SU(3) Symmetry in QCD
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Graduate Difference between pion and rho
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Undergrad Thesis statement for my essay on the LHC
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Graduate Angels & Demons - The anti-matter bomb
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Graduate Representations of Lorentz group
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Undergrad Heat energy in fission reactions.
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Graduate Infinite cross section in scattering
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Graduate Particle beams in space rockets
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Graduate Is the Higgs Particle the Sole Determinant of Inertia?
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Graduate Spontaneous Symmetry breaking-weinberg's chair
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Graduate Strong versus weak interactions
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Undergrad Short wavelengths carry no energy?
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Graduate GIM Mechanism & FCNC: Explained
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High School Can Neutrons Collide? - Physics Q&A
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Graduate Antimatter & Gravity: Is it Repulsed by Matter?
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Graduate Question about the IACT type telescope, and what it sees.
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Undergrad Black holes are supposed to suck everything
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Graduate Weak coupling strength constant
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Graduate Particle physics & QFT, A conceptual question
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Graduate Quark Physics: Nucleon Structure Explained
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Graduate Estimating the Value of Yukawa Coupling g for Neutron-Proton Scattering
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Graduate Intersize Particle Interaction
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Graduate Particle identification in detectors
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Undergrad How much Energy exacltly is an MeV?
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Graduate Can Scientists Create Focused Beams of Subatomic Particles?
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Graduate Is poincare grouo simply connected?
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Graduate LHC vs Cosmic Rays: What's the Difference?
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Graduate Fusion Initiation with Lasers: Challenges & Opportunities
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Graduate Compton Edge and Gamma Spectroscopy
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Graduate Fast neutrons vs thermal neutrons
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Undergrad Uncovering the Truth: Is the Glowing Substance in Microwaves Really Plasma?
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Undergrad Beta decay fundamental question
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Graduate Calculating energy released from beta decay
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Undergrad Understanding the Randomness of Radioactive Decay
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Graduate SM particles in highly curved spacetime
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Is the Correct Way to Write Reactivity in Dollars $0.43?
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Graduate Neutrino power extraction feasable?
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Graduate Can nuclear weapons explosion produce neutrino pluse ?
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Graduate Looking at the spin of 7N7 and 9F10
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Graduate Z Boson, Posiron-Electron Annihilation.
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Graduate Exact Gauge Symmetry of the Standard Model
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Graduate What is Gauge Invariance in QFT?
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Graduate Large Hadron Collider questions
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Graduate Antibaryon Matter: Is it Observed on Earth?
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Undergrad Why does FISSION release energy?
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Graduate How do GM tubes detect charged particles in a hadron collider?
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High School Rutherford's gold foil experiment
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Graduate Muon decay and internal structure of leptons.
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Graduate Is magnetism important in particle interaction?
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Graduate Local symmetry and forces, what book to read?
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Graduate Having discovered up, down, strange, charm and bottom quarks
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Undergrad Why is the Breit-Wigner profile used to describe gamma ray emissions?
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Graduate Lifetime of electrons and protons outside the nuclues.
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Undergrad Does Fission Affect Nuclear Fusion Rates?
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Graduate Formation of Quarks: What's Nothing Made Of?
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Graduate Non relativistic limit for dirac propagator
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Graduate How Do You Calculate Flavor-Spin Wavefunctions in Quantum Chromodynamics?
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Graduate Conformal symmetry group for R(1,3)
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Graduate Electron-pozitron annihilation, conservation of spin
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Graduate Quarks Formation & Fractional Charges Explained
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Can a graviton pull another graviton?
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High School Building a Cloud Chamber: Tips and Tricks
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Graduate Spin of photons/gamma ray transitions
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Graduate How does the mass ratio M_W/M_Z evolve with energy?
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Who did I see at the bus stop today?
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Undergrad How to explain the mass deffect?
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Graduate How Can a Dineutron Be Produced?
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Graduate Calculating Acceptance Value (Acc) from MC Datasets - Kim
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Graduate Would a theory with ONLY logarithmic divergencies be renormalizable ?
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Graduate LHC Restart at 3.5 TeV: CERN Prepares for 2009-2010 Run
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Graduate The W boson mass is exp(-4pi^2) of a Planck mass
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Graduate Calculating Hadron Scattering Processes from the Strong Force
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Graduate Are not the IR and UV divergences the same (mathematically)
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Graduate Spin-2 exchange particle and GR
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Graduate How Does the Kinetic Energy Sum Relate to Total Energy in a System of Particles?
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Undergrad Create a home made muon or gamma ray detector?
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Undergrad How to Convert a Cross Section from GeV2 to Barn | Helpful Tips
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Graduate How did physicists predict anything about the Higgs boson?
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Graduate Importance of other Elementary Particles?
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Graduate Neutrino energy from beta+ decay
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Graduate How do 'Plasma Windows' create vaccums?
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Graduate Energy conservation for virtual photon
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High School What Are the Key Differences Between Electrons and Positrons?
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Graduate How does the dressed electron look like in QED?
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Graduate Is the Higgs Boson Really the Graviton?
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Graduate Where to find data on sea quark distribution of protons?
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Graduate What happened to the position basis?
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Graduate Symmetry and range of interaction
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Graduate [HELP]What is the difference between renormalized mass and the running mass
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Graduate What Property Influences a Neutrino's CC Interaction Outcome?
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