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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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Graduate Groups of quarks and confinement

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Graduate Energy in the LHC beam at any time

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Undergrad What are some recommended resources for beginners in particle physics?

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Graduate Math required for particle physics

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Graduate Discussing the Future of CERN and Particle Physics in General

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Graduate Higgs particle, supersymmetry and dark matter.

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Graduate What is meant by the breakdown of unitarity at TeV-scale

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Graduate How Are Electrons Formed from Gamma Radiation?

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Graduate Particle/antiparticle annihilation

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Graduate Questions about radiative decay modes

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Graduate Particle constituents - very confused

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High School CERN's Large Hadron Collider Makes Its First Beam Circulation

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Graduate CERN Experiment: Unveiling the Mysteries of Infinite Mass and Light

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Graduate Physics Question: What is the Role of a Boson in an Atom?

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Undergrad What are the Extra Dimensions in the LHC experiment?

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LHC Physics: Taking Risks for the Future

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Undergrad What are the challenges in detecting the Higgs boson at CERN?

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Graduate Calculating the Energy of a Neutrion

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Graduate Discovering Bosons: The Fascinating World of Particle Physics Explained

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Hawking Bets $100 the LHC Will Not Find The Higgs

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Graduate How will LHC know the Higgs when they see it?

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Why dont they say stream of particles

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High School Large Hadron Collider: Discovering Mysteries of the Universe

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Graduate How Does Temperature Affect Radioactive Decay Rates?

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Graduate Where do the particles come from in collisions?

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Graduate Whether and how LHC will help us get past the SM

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Graduate The Potential of Electron-Electron Collisions in the L.H.C.

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Graduate Is the LHC the key to solving the mystery of elementary particle mass?

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Graduate Understanding Dynode Multiplication in Scintillation Detectors

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Graduate Use of Scintillator for Gamma Rays

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Graduate Question regarding CP violation in the CKM matrix

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Undergrad What nuclear reactions are attributed to cosmic rays?

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Graduate Why do high energy colliders require particles with uncertain momentum?

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Graduate Quick Question about anti-particles.

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Graduate Decomposition of direct product into symmetric/antisymmetric parts

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Graduate Could Supersymmetry Explain Dark Matter?

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Graduate Electromagnetic and weak interaction unification

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Graduate How Does the Magnetic Field Behave Around a Moving Electron?

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Graduate Accessing LHC Data - Best Ways to Monitor Experiments

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Undergrad Why Do Scientists Choose Protons for Clean Collisions in the LHC?

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Undergrad Question about particle physics

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Graduate Can gravity be a kinematic effect?

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Graduate The Importance of Gauge Theories in Particle Physics

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Undergrad How Do Multiwire Chambers Detect Charged Particles?

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Graduate Is the Higgs Boson Just a Force?

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Graduate Saturation of the Nuclear forces

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Graduate What Makes Classical Chromodynamics Unique in Understanding Strong Interactions?

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Graduate How to focus a beam of charged particles?

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Undergrad Unequal Masses on a Pivot Rod: What Does it Mean?

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Graduate Temperature of sub-atomic particles

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Graduate Nuclear force/inverse xth power law

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Graduate QFT: Does Dirac Equation Reduce to Pauli's?

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Graduate Monopoles and Magnetic Reconnection

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Undergrad How Does the Structure of N2 Affect Its Kinetic Energy Calculation?

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Latest Updates on LHC Beam Tests: What You Need to Know

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Graduate Have Neutrinos and Anti-Neutrinos Been Directly Proven to Exist in Experiments?

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Graduate Understanding Halzen Martin's Use of J_em and J_Y in SU(2)*U(1) Theory

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Graduate How do the Veneziano amplitudes explain the strong force?

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Graduate Higher energies and shorter distances

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Undergrad Is there a weapon that beams particles like a taser?

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Graduate QCD Colour Charges: SU(3) Symmetry & Noether's Theorem

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Graduate Unleashing the Power of a H-Bomb Missile

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Graduate Definition of short- and long-distance effects in branching ratios

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Undergrad Uncovering the Truth Behind Cold Fusion: Separating Fact from Fiction

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Graduate Investigating Heavy-Ion Collisions to Probe QCD

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High School Does Chemical Reactions Affect Mass?

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Graduate Nature of Sub-Atomic Particles

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Graduate Is the Planck Length Theory Accepted or Controversial?

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Undergrad Standard Model of Particle Physics

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Undergrad Why does low energy neutrons favor U235 fission?

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Graduate What is Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking?

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Graduate What Causes the Casimir Effect and Its Implications for Vacuum Energy?

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Undergrad Lead as Radiation Absorber - Nuclear Lab

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Graduate Are the W bosons charged before symmetry breaking?

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Graduate Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Dangers?

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Graduate How much radiation energy can a charge give off?

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Graduate Arxiv that is concerned with so-called Unparticle

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Undergrad Revolutionizing Energy: The Future of Fusion Reactors Explained

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Graduate How to make sense of the sum: 1+2+3+ =-1/12 using regularization?

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Have You Seen the Photos of LHC? Absolutely Mind-Blowing!

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Graduate Breaking SU(3)xU(1) to SU(2) Exercise: A Search for Solutions

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Graduate Higgs excluded at 170 GeV (press release 4 August)

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Graduate What Are the True Properties of Particles and Their Behavior in Space?

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Undergrad Calculation of specific activity when element consists of two isotopes

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Undergrad How to Calculate Mass from Activity?

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Graduate Spin, charge, and magnetic moment

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Graduate Feyman Diagram - Represent QED model(s)?

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Graduate What Makes Quarks' Charmness and Strangeness Unique?

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