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Electroweak symmetry breaking without a Higgs
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Moving Particles: Can Pitchfork Vibrations Affect You?
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Binding Energy and Mass Deficit
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An easy one about atomic bombs.
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What is the Fermion Moving at Light Speed?
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Where can I find resources for calculating the deuteron quadrupole moment?
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Muon Attenuation: Is Heavy Metal Significant?
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What are some suggestions for a Monte Carlo simulation in nuclear physics?
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How Do Resonance and Quasiparticles Differ in Physics?
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Is there a convenient parameterization for muon radiative losses in matter?
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Understanding Particle Accelerators: Mechanisms and Questions Answered
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Quark's mass vs an electron's mass
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Dark matter/virtual particles in standard model?
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Understanding Isospin in Nuclear Physics
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How do one describe particles with chirality?
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What Unique Thesis Topics Can You Explore in Nuclear and Particle Physics?
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Electron Speed at 0K - Patrick's Question
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Can a Higgs Field in an Isospin Triplet Give Mass to a Standard Model Quark?
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Free-Free Absorption Coefficient: Intuitive Concept
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Anti-neutron + Electron reaction?
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Neutron Interactions: Collisions & Absorption
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Interesting new model(s) on the hierarchy problem
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Understanding the Higgs Field and Mechanism
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Is Element 18001 Reactium More Reactive Than Cesium and Rubidium?
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Supergun compared to nuclear bombs
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Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem
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Conservation of momentum at Annihilation
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Drawing Feynman Diagrams with Feynmf
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How did he calculate the probabilities?
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Understanding Yield: Does the Equation Need Breaking Down?
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The Potential of Nuclear Antennas for High-Frequency Communication"
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Problem in understanding the Isospin
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Beta Threshold Energy: Electron vs Positron
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How Do We Model Positronium in Quantum Mechanics?
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If Neutron and Proton have some diff. mass then why?
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Origin of Charges: Electron & Proton Charges
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Intermediate State in Standard Model Book - Clarify!
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Binding Energy-same question-different approach
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Question-binding energy per atom
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Need some help interpreting the muon energy spectrum
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What Are Resonances in Physics?
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Magnetic Monopoles: Expected Characteristics & Properties
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Compact Muon Solenoid experiment simulations
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Conditions for thermal neutron induced fission
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Can There Be a Fourth Generation of Charged Leptons in the Standard Model?
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Neutrino Oscillations: Massiveness & Non-Oscillation of Electrons, Muons & Taus
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Is Everything in the Universe Made from Hydrogen Atoms?
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Slow neutron beam deflection by a magnetic field
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Why Does Fusion Release Energy?
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Half Life of Radioactive Isotopes
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What Determines the Upper Energy Limit of Gamma Rays?
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Do Electron-Positron Scattering Cross Sections Always Increase with Energy?
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Existence of virtual particles
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Atomic BOMB but not RADIOACTIVE
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Moon and GUT scale coincidences
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The Irony of the Higgs Mechanism: Giving Mass to the Massless?
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Symmetry and shape of elementary particles
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Virtual Particles: Positive or Negative Energy?
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Vacuum in Quantum Field theory is not empty
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Dangers of the Large Hadron Collider: Is James Worried About Nothing?
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Converting Plutonium: Nuclear Reactions for Harmlessness
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Understanding the Higgs Mechanism
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Energy Distribution of Particles in a Liquid
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Understanding Percolation Threshold and Periodic Boundary in Particle Systems
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Where can I find scintillation properties for xenon gas?
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Can LINAC and Neutrons Be Used for Cancer Treatment?
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Potential Energy of a Proton/Neutron System
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A question that bothers me - Photon spin up/down state?
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Massless photons is a hard concept to grasp
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Neutral Current - Neutrons and Neutrinos
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Isospin vs. flavor vs. spin - Difference and similarity?
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Can a Laser Be Amplified by Plasma?
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Carl's Upcoming Talk at Hawaii Conference
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Creating Electrons via Compton Scattering
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What Are the Implications of Unparticle Physics?
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Interactive fields in QFT - the φ^3 example
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Double Beta Decay: Questions from a Newbie
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QED Calculations: Progress Made in Last 25-30 Years
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MCNP4C: efficiency calculation
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Difference between pseudorapidity and rapidity
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Solving Three Body Decay: Colin's Challenge
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Is CP Invariance Violation Indicated by Neutrino Oscillations?
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Rho-meson mass due to angular momentum?
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How do I calculate the beam energy for fixed target experiments?
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How do quark forces change with distance and attraction?
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Understanding Isospin in Neutron/Proton System: T & T3
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LHC Magnet Test Failure: Latest Updates and Delay Information
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Composition of Neutral Pion: uubar, ddbar, or Linear Combination?
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Is Caos Theory Helpful in Studying Nuclear Physics?
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Particle cartoons by Roz Chast in Symmetry mag
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Nuclear Density: g/cm^3 & Nucleon/F^3
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Spontaneous fission condition of the nucleus
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Conformal Groups: Lie Algebra of Generators
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Can the Sun Power a New Generation of Lasers?
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Hydrogen when its electron is removed
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Main Cause of Proton Spin: What Accounts For It?
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Neucleons: proton and neucleus
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What role does the neutrino play?
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Where Can I Find Resources for Cross Sections and Decay Rates?
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What Is the W Boson and Its Role in Beta Decay?
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