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Graduate How Does Generalized Wick's Theorem Evaluate Multi-Operator Contractions?

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Graduate What is the Tangential Hall Effect in Ferromagnetic Materials?

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Graduate Is Supersymmetry the Future of Particle Physics?

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Undergrad Reactor Fission VS. Weapon Fission

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Graduate Scattering matrix to traces/dirac spinors

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Graduate Meson is made up of one quark and one anti-quark

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Graduate Can Antimatter Emit Visible Light?

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Graduate What do we mean when we say on shell particles?

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Graduate Understanding Fusion Power: Deuterium & Tritium in Magnetic Confinement

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Graduate Change of energy under charge conjugation

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Graduate Uclear shell model is based on the shell model for electrons

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Graduate Can Nuclear Forces Influence Gravity on a Cosmic Scale?

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Graduate Fuison/fission, where does the energy come from?

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Graduate What is the Meaning of Neutron Scattering Length?

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Undergrad Why Don't Neutron-Neutron States Exist?

  • Mr T
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Graduate Understanding the Dilemma: Differential Operators and the Poincare Algebra

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Graduate Questions on Normal Ordering in Quantum Field Theory

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Undergrad Streamer Chamber Particle Detector Info

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Graduate Question about nuclear fission/fusion and binding energy

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Graduate On equivalence of QFT and Quantum Statistical Physics

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Graduate Electron radius/scattering experiments

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Graduate How Does Poisson's Equation Apply to Plasma Physics?

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Graduate Is the Higgs boson necessary to explain the source of mass and gravity?

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Graduate What Are the Key Concepts in Understanding Nuclear Properties?

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Graduate What does collision mean when dealing with elementary particles?

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Graduate Neutral Pion Decay: What Forbids EM Force?

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Undergrad Different ways of slowing down an individual particle

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Graduate Why is the mass gap of QCD so important?

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Graduate Slight preponderance of matter on antimatter

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Graduate How can GEANT4 simulations enhance the understanding of hadronic jets?

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Graduate Particle Simulation in 2D: Estimating Cell Values

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Graduate A question on the Higgs fields and Mass

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Graduate Combining Stable Nuclides to Form Unstable Nuclides

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Graduate What is the energy dependence of photon cross sections at high energies?

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Graduate Liquid Drop Model of the Nucleus

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Graduate Parton Distributions in PP collisions

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Undergrad Solve Lagrangian Deduc Vertex Problem Easily

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Graduate How are quark masses determined experimentally?

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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Spin and Parity in Nuclei?

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Graduate Deuterium fusion into Helium-4

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Graduate Angle pd decay between two muons between Z boson?

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Graduate Feynman's Path integral formulation

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Graduate Amplitude of Vertex Diagram: Unchanged?

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Graduate Why Photon Momentum Drops Out of QED Propagator

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Graduate 60 minutes: Cold fusion is hot again

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Undergrad Is the Beta Decay Mass Condition Dependent on Atomic Masses?

  • Master J
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Undergrad What is the Value of Fermi's Constant (GF) in SI Units?

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Graduate Nuclear binding energy problem

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Graduate Understanding the Higgs Mechanism: W & Z Boson Mass & Particle Mass

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Undergrad How to Convert Linear to Mass Absorption Coefficient for Lead?

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Undergrad How Are Gamma Rays Absorbed in Materials Used Practically?

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High School Are LEDs and Photodiodes Interchangeable in the Photoelectric Effect?

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Graduate Nuclear Effect versus Atomic Effect

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Graduate I got a topic to research Recommended preparatory reading?

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Graduate Secondary radiation from alpha particles?

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Graduate Particle-Antiparticle Pairs: When High Energy Photons Split

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Graduate Antimatter excotic particle or another reality?

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Undergrad Understanding Beta-decay: Differentiating Mass Deficit and Mass Excess

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Graduate CP symmetry violation and matter antimatter asymmetry

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Graduate Resource/reference for particle interactions?

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Undergrad How do nuclear reactions in power plants differ from those in nuclear bombs?

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High School Californium-242 nucleus 242/98 Cf decays via alpha decay

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Graduate Pion decay in electron and neutrino

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Graduate Rate of change of angle between a particle and a field

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Graduate Renormalisation and proliferation

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Graduate Relation between Clifford algebra and Lorentz algebra

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Nuclear vs Hadron Mass: Why the Paradox in Physics?

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Graduate Can Five Neutrons Form a Neutroium Nucleus?

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High School Deduce Kinematic Factors Easily: No Tedious Work

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Graduate Photons vs Neutrinos: Why Do They Behave Differently?

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Graduate How can the count rate for muons be affected by different factors?

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Graduate How dense would neutron matter be?

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Graduate Does High Energy Electron Interaction Reveal Asymptotic Freedom in Quarks?

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Graduate What is analysis of the spectrum?

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Graduate Infinitesimal Lorentz transformation

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High School Is this how particles interact?

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Graduate Drell-Yan at LHC: Proton+Proton Feynman Diagram

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High School Gamma + X-rays Smash Atomic Nuclei, Ultraviolet Light Smashes Molecules

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Graduate Does Spin Have Meaning in a (1+2)D System?

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Graduate Are Results from Inelastic Particle Collisions Reproducible?

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Graduate Proof that the E.M Field is invariant under guage transformation.

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Graduate What is a Multiplet? Explaining Lie Algebras & Particles

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Graduate Atlas Exp: Solving Calorimeter Challenges

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Graduate Why Is Gauge Invariance Fundamental in Physics?

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Graduate Gribov Ambiguity: Non-Abelian Theories & Solutions

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Graduate Motivation for electromagnetic field tensor

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Graduate [Anti] Matter In The Early Universe - Over Complicated?

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Graduate Do Kaluza-Klein theories accurately describe nature's forces and particles?

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Undergrad How can a photon exist if it has no mass?

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Graduate Positron neutrino=electron antineutrino

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Graduate How Do Matrix Valued Propagators Interpret Fermion Amplitudes?

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Graduate Why isnt there a up,up anti-down baryon?

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Graduate Connection between killing forms and metrics

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Pair Production: Electron/Positron from Photon Collisions?

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Graduate Deriving 4-Point Fermi Interaction from Standard Model

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Graduate In which direction is the spin of longitudinally polarized W?

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Graduate Short half life nuclear homogenous or non homogenous Poisson?

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Graduate Radiocarbon creation mechanisms

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Graduate Quark-Gluon Plasma: Coupling, Perturbation Theory & Lattice-Gauge Theory

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Graduate Why is the Decay of Neutral Pion to Electron Positron Pair Forbidden?

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