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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?

  • franoisbelfor
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Graduate Can e+e- collisions produce e+e- pairs through two-photon processes?

  • Monitor16807
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Graduate What Happens at the Nuclear Level During Radioactive Emissions?

  • uspatange
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Graduate Interaction between electron & neutron

  • Denton
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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.

  • MackBlanch
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Undergrad Why do alpha particles cause neutrons to be released from beryllium?

  • Tamoor
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Graduate Number of quarks inside a nucleon

  • TheMan112
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Graduate Is the Higgs Field the Only Way to Explain Mass in the Standard Model?

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Graduate How much power will 10 grams of plutonium produce?

  • The000Agent
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Graduate Is j a nuclear quantum # or subshell notation or both?

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Undergrad Understanding Hadrons: A Beginner's Guide to the Proton and Quarks

  • KylBlz
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Graduate Gravity: Particle or Shape of Space?

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Graduate Color currents in classical QCD

  • Ben Niehoff
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Graduate Do Quarks Decay? What Happens When They Disappear?

  • sanman
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High School Photon Energy: How Much Does a Radio Wave Contain?

  • cam875
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Graduate Proton Volts vs. Electron Volts: Impact on Energy Measurement

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Graduate What is the reason for positronium's short lifetime and instability?

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Undergrad Eightfold Way: Recent Experiments & Links for Physics Class

  • DukeLuke
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetries

  • julian
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Undergrad How to measure the released energy?

  • Shing
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Undergrad How Can Non-Physicists Understand the Higgs Boson?

  • Shomy
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Graduate What are Some Suggested Projects in Particle Physics for an MSc in the UK?

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Graduate Understandig Representation of SO(3) Group

  • torehan
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Graduate Nuclei Single-particles Harmonic Oscillator Potential

  • bluestar
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Undergrad Why LHC use proton-proton collide instead of proton-antiproton collide?

  • magnetar
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Graduate Weak decays- why do they occur?

  • WilliamD
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Graduate Motion of quarks inside the neutron

  • TheMan112
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Graduate LLNL Claims Cheap Anti-Matter Breakthrough

  • sanman
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Undergrad How do physicists calculate half-lives?

  • Petrix
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Graduate Second and Third Generations of Proton and Neutron?

  • Petrix
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Graduate The nature of particles in the Standard Model vs String Theory

  • WaveJumper
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Graduate Calculating Cross Sections w/ Photon Spin States

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Why is the Higgs Field Classified as a Scalar Field?

  • db1uover
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High School What keeps protons together in the nucleus?

  • devanlevin
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Graduate Where to Access the Longest Worked Out Calculations in Physics?

  • Urvabara
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Graduate Virtual particles and perturbation theory

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Understanding Neutrino Oscillation: Explaining Flavor & Mass States

  • Unredeemed
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Graduate How Did Quantum Fluctuations Spark the Birth of Our Universe?

  • Unredeemed
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Finding the Standard Model of Physics

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Graduate Free Electron Laser: Relativistic Particle Velocity

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Graduate Can massless quarks form massive hadrons?

  • carroza
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Graduate Why Can't Detected Particles Be Virtual?

  • Bobhawke
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Graduate Builds an anti-nucleus composed of anti-proton and anti-neutron

  • JustinLevy
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Graduate Explain me what the nuclear isospin is?

  • ghery
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Undergrad Why does Z=-1 for a beta minus particle?

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Graduate How do you visualise particles?

  • james mccue
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High School What Do You Think Matter Is Made Of?

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Undergrad Is nuclear decay based on probability?

  • Chaste
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Graduate Why is scaling in DIS primarily observed at middle x-values?

  • blue2script
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Graduate Boson and electron mass and speed in beta decay

  • james mccue
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Undergrad Calculating Nuclei Shell Energy Levels: No Bra-Ket Math Needed

  • bluestar
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Graduate Physicists Discover 'Doubly Strange' Particle

  • icho100
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Graduate Leptons & Quark Speed in Nucleon | Average at Room Temp

  • Lok
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Graduate Nucleon Potential: Why 3D Harmonic Oscillator?

  • quantumfireball
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Undergrad What is the Importance of Parity Conservation in Physics?

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Graduate Number theory and nuclear physics

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Graduate How would a beamed core antimatter drive appear from Earth?

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Graduate ArXiv:0810.5357 CDF looks into itself for new physics

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Graduate Transforming [product] with Fierz Transformations

  • Lester
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Graduate Simple introduction to particle physics

  • julian
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Graduate Kindergarden question about the Strong Force: its origin

  • Tachyonie
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Graduate Can a 17-Year-Old Pioneer Cold Fusion Breakthroughs?

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Graduate Is the Weak Interaction Really a Force?

  • michael879
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Graduate Why Is the Electric Quadrupole Moment Zero in a Spherically Symmetric Potential?

  • GAGS
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Graduate Po-210 in cigarettes, is it dangerous?

  • DeShark
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Graduate Internal Conversion: Why is K-Shell Electron Knocking Out Higher?

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Graduate Understanding gluons and SU(3)

  • franoisbelfor
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Graduate Negative Pion Decay: Muon & Antimuon Neutrino

  • ylem
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Graduate Higgs mechanism and Angular momentum

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Graduate If nuclear forces would be spin independent

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Undergrad When does the formula for radioactive decay become invalid?

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Graduate Calculating energies for a nuclear reaction?

  • tomsthename
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Graduate Extra neutrons in heavy atoms and Gravity

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Graduate Spontaneous endothermic nuclear reaction?

  • pancake
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Graduate Production of Anti-Protons | LHC

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Graduate Bethe-Bloch Equation different materials

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Graduate Neutrino Flux: Sun vs Reactors

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate Why Don't Photons and Neutrinos Couple to the Higgs Field?

  • quantumfireball
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Graduate Yang-Mills covariant derivative

  • Phrak
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Graduate Electron mass density approaches infinity?

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Why Do Protons and Neutrons Have Similar Masses?

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High School What's the difference between gamma rays and x rays?

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Graduate Spinors in d dimensions and Clifford algebra

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Undergrad Radioactivity: Alpha, Beta & Gamma Radiation Effects

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Graduate Can Powerful Magnets Pull an Electron Apart?

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Graduate Is the quadratic divergence of the Higgs mass really bad?

  • JohnStanton
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Graduate Why are the legs needed in a penguin diagram?

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Undergrad Nuclear Reactions: Mass, Energy, and Particles

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Graduate Angle & energy of compton electrons

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Graduate Why do they use a huge tokamak?

  • doctorSparks
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Graduate Where can I find vertex corrections for leptons at different momenta?

  • Moth
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Graduate Could the Large Hadron Collider Create a Black Hole That Threatens Earth?

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Graduate What is wrong with the standard model at 1 or 2 TeV?

  • JohnStanton
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Graduate Question on differential crossection, pair production

  • malawi_glenn
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Graduate Higgs boson and the mass of W and Z

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