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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?
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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
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Graduate Gravity: Particle or Shape of Space?
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Graduate Color currents in classical QCD
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Graduate Do Quarks Decay? What Happens When They Disappear?
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High School Photon Energy: How Much Does a Radio Wave Contain?
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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
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Graduate Spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetries
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Undergrad How to measure the released energy?
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Undergrad How Can Non-Physicists Understand the Higgs Boson?
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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
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Graduate Nuclei Single-particles Harmonic Oscillator Potential
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Undergrad Why LHC use proton-proton collide instead of proton-antiproton collide?
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Graduate Weak decays- why do they occur?
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Graduate Motion of quarks inside the neutron
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Graduate LLNL Claims Cheap Anti-Matter Breakthrough
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Undergrad How do physicists calculate half-lives?
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Graduate Second and Third Generations of Proton and Neutron?
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Graduate The nature of particles in the Standard Model vs String Theory
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Graduate Calculating Cross Sections w/ Photon Spin States
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Graduate Why is the Higgs Field Classified as a Scalar Field?
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High School What keeps protons together in the nucleus?
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Graduate Where to Access the Longest Worked Out Calculations in Physics?
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Graduate Virtual particles and perturbation theory
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Graduate Understanding Neutrino Oscillation: Explaining Flavor & Mass States
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Graduate How Did Quantum Fluctuations Spark the Birth of Our Universe?
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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?
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Graduate Why Can't Detected Particles Be Virtual?
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Graduate Builds an anti-nucleus composed of anti-proton and anti-neutron
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Graduate Explain me what the nuclear isospin is?
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Undergrad Why does Z=-1 for a beta minus particle?
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Graduate How do you visualise particles?
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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?
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Graduate Why is scaling in DIS primarily observed at middle x-values?
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Graduate Boson and electron mass and speed in beta decay
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Undergrad Calculating Nuclei Shell Energy Levels: No Bra-Ket Math Needed
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Graduate Physicists Discover 'Doubly Strange' Particle
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Graduate Leptons & Quark Speed in Nucleon | Average at Room Temp
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Graduate Nucleon Potential: Why 3D Harmonic Oscillator?
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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
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Graduate Simple introduction to particle physics
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Graduate Kindergarden question about the Strong Force: its origin
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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?
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Graduate Why Is the Electric Quadrupole Moment Zero in a Spherically Symmetric Potential?
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Graduate Po-210 in cigarettes, is it dangerous?
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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)
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Graduate Negative Pion Decay: Muon & Antimuon Neutrino
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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?
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Graduate Extra neutrons in heavy atoms and Gravity
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Graduate Spontaneous endothermic nuclear reaction?
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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
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Graduate Why Don't Photons and Neutrinos Couple to the Higgs Field?
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Graduate Yang-Mills covariant derivative
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Graduate Electron mass density approaches infinity?
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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?
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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?
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Graduate Where can I find vertex corrections for leptons at different momenta?
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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?
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Graduate Question on differential crossection, pair production
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Graduate Higgs boson and the mass of W and Z
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Graduate Atomic Separation: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Antimatter Electron vs Positron - Is There a Difference?
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Graduate CP violation: why not in K*, B* vector mesons?
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Graduate Where Can I Find High-Energy Pair Production Differential Cross Sections?
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Graduate Why do \pi\^{\pm} have different charges than \pi\^{0}?
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Graduate What is the Misunderstanding about CPT Symmetries in Physics?
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Undergrad Hydrogen to Helium: A Physical Science Question
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Graduate Book reccomendations: CP violation, SUSY and Gravity/EM unification?
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Graduate Is Matter the Key to Unlocking Nuclear Fusion?
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High School Radioactive energy as an alternative energy source?
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Undergrad How can mass be converted into energy?
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LHC First Collisions: Thursday Scheduled
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