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Graduate Hi. a simple question on endothermic fusion

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Graduate Probability of Beta Particle Detection from Uniformly Covered Surface

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Graduate What's the relation between SUSY Generators and Covariant Derivatives?

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Undergrad Detecting Virtual Photons & EM Force: A Particle Physics Quandary

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Graduate Spin connection vs. Christoffel connection

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Graduate Bound states of massless fermions

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Graduate What Are Hidden Sectors and Their Particles?

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Graduate Being hit by a fast particle - What would happen?

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Graduate Cross Section Difference Bhabha Scattering and Muon Pair Production

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Undergrad Does the Detection of Gluons Provide Strong Evidence for Their Existence?

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Graduate Solving the Mystery of the Higgs Field

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Graduate Please explain binding energy?

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Graduate Compute Breit-Wigner for particle decay

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Graduate Question on solar neutrinos and IceCube

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Graduate Conversion of particle fluence to Krad

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Graduate What Happens to the Force Between Quarks When They Are Pulled Apart?

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Graduate Quadratic Casimir Operator of SU(3)

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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Atoms and Nuclides?

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Graduate What Do K and Alpha Represent in Yukawa's Potential?

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Graduate Weak Interactive Force: Mesons & Bosons

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High School The Nucleus or Nucleon or Neutron Bomb

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Graduate Does an electron have an internal structure?

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Graduate What are some recommended Feynman diagram calculators?

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Graduate Why we need intermediate particles

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Graduate Positronium Decay: Energy of Photon?

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Graduate How do gravitons cause gravitational attraction?

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Undergrad Why are only some particles fissionable/fissile?

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Graduate Feynman's empty space isn't really empty space

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Graduate Why spin 1/2 nucleus has no quadrupole?

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Graduate Is the weak and strong force the same force?

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Graduate Neutron-Only Nuclei: Stability & Forces

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Graduate Can Proton-Electron Fusion Create a Neutron?

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Graduate Is the Mass Defect in Heavy Nuclei Well Supported by Scientific Evidence?

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Graduate Testability of GUTs at the LHC

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Graduate Accelerate an Uncharged Particle?

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Graduate I found a lepton mass ratio formula:

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Graduate Structure of the atom - strong interaction and colour charge.

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Undergrad Why Do Neutrons Radioactively Decay, But Protons Don't?

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High School Thomson Scattering: What Is It?

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Graduate Where Can I Find a Clear Derivation of the DGLAP g-g Splitting Function?

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Undergrad What Happens When High-Speed Electrons Hit Gold Foil?

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Graduate Recently discovered ZZ diboson

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Graduate Where EXACTLY is the Mass of an Atom? Proton? Quark? Hadron? Gluon?

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Graduate Evidence for 3 quarks in protons

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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Blast Radius of a Nuclear Explosion?

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Graduate Is Strong Nuclear Force Measured Using F=p*E/hbar Equation?

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Graduate What does W cut mean in regards to particle physics?

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Undergrad Can Black Holes Be Used as a Source of Antimatter?

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Undergrad The Meissner Effect: What Causes Magnet Repellency?

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Graduate Can a stable nucleus ever spontaneously become (temporarily) unstable?

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Graduate Graviton vs Gluon Ball: Can Graviton Replace Gluon?

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Graduate Approximate cross section calculations

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Undergrad Calculating the Risk of Pilot Radiation from Nuclear Bombs

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Graduate Hyperconductivity in dense high energy particle streams/sheets

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Undergrad TNT vs Thermonuclear Explosions: 50Mt Effects & Radiation

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Undergrad How to convert count rate into becquerels

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High School Tradition of physics wagers : Higgs Boson

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Graduate Quark Attraction: Physics Simulator & Gluon Transfer

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Graduate - gravitational coupling constant value?

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Graduate Solving Parity in B.R. Martin's Nuclear and Particle Physics

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Graduate How to impose a boundary on higgs mass given the top mass?

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Graduate Standard model coupling strengths

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Graduate Do Neutrinos Violate Energy Conservation During Oscillation?

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Graduate Standard model coupling strengths

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Graduate Why can't there be spontaneous symmetry breaking in finite volume?

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Graduate Identifying Forces in Reaction Equations

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Graduate Is an electron a type of electromagnetic wave?

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Graduate High Energy Photon/Curved Space Limit?

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Graduate Do All Stars Emit Only Electron Neutrinos?

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Graduate Why Do Quarks Form Triplets Instead of Larger Groups in the Early Universe?

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Undergrad Can photon interact with neutron?

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Undergrad I thought protons couldn't decay

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Graduate Matter-antimatter colision and pure energy

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Graduate How does the electron mass run with energy?

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Graduate Weak analog of the 'Strong CP Problem'

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Graduate Dirac Spinors Suck: QFT Calculations with Weyl Spinors

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Graduate Model for series radioactive decay

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Graduate The antineutrino in Beta decay

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Graduate Particle resonance and the resonance in a driven, damped classical

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Graduate How do gluons bind quarks together?

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Graduate The standard model, a couple of q's

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Graduate Massless boson vs massive boson

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High School The building of a proton accelerator

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Graduate Why do couplings run with log of energy?

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Undergrad How do i understand this equation ?

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Undergrad Beta Decay & Quarks - A-Level Physics Explained

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Graduate LHC down until late summer 2009 or early 2010

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Graduate Electron-positron pair creation by weak interaction?

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Graduate Building a particle accelerator

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Graduate Question about intrinsic structure of the electron

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Graduate How do you read Clebsch-Gordon tables?

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Undergrad Understanding Radioactive Iodine: Effects on Thyroid Growth and Activity

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Graduate Why Is the Middle Term in the QED Field Strength Tensor Commutator Non-Zero?

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Graduate Question about Higgs fields in SU(5) GUT.

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Graduate If you add salt to liquid nitrogen,would it turn into a superconductor?

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Graduate Why can't rho^o decay into two pi^o?

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Graduate Photon & Antimatter: Annihilation & Neutron Questions

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Undergrad What is the SI unit for a Fermi in nuclear physics?

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Graduate Why was is it needed to include the Z boson along with the W's?

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Graduate How does boiling the vacuum generate matter from light?

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