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Graduate Compute Breit-Wigner for particle decay
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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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Graduate Quarks: Confinement Issues & Free Particles
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Graduate Antimatter residual radiation Q
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Graduate Beta Decay Neutron: Proton, Electron Mass Difference
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Graduate Will the Higgs mix with glueballs?
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Graduate Can e+e- collisions produce e+e- pairs through two-photon processes?
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Graduate What Happens at the Nuclear Level During Radioactive Emissions?
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Graduate Interaction between electron & neutron
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Graduate GUT Model Rank 4: Georgi-Glashaw SU(5) & Lie Algebras
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Graduate Confused About W Bosons: Mass/Energy Inside and Outside Proton?
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Graduate Measuring the spin of a Higgs Boson.
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Undergrad Why do alpha particles cause neutrons to be released from beryllium?
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Graduate Number of quarks inside a nucleon
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