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Graduate "Reversal" of Nuclear Decay in Beta Emitters
- Aakash Sunkari
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Undergrad Building a muon Cherenkov detector
- a_cool_username
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Undergrad Are Hadrons and Gluons Symmetric Against Interchange of Colours?
- PeroK
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Graduate Predicting the positive parity and zero spin of the Higgs boson?
- Intesar
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Undergrad The SO(3) group in Group Theory
- sophiatev
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High School How Does Nucleon Shape Relate to Quark Number and Electric Quadrupole Moment?
- jk22
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Graduate W+/W- bosons ratio in proton-proton collision
- Vicga
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Undergrad Looking for Experimental Data on Isotopes (Nuclear Physics and Engineering)
- Admiralibr123
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Undergrad Estimating decay yields from fits to these distributions
- Floyd_13
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Undergrad Best Formula for Fitting Nuclear Charge Radius Data
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Neutrino Helicity and Spin Uncertainty
- Coltrane8
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Undergrad Why do nuclei need neutrons to bind protons together?
- artis
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High School Relationship between wavelength and concentration of particles
- angela6884
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Undergrad Transmission electron microscope beam focusing
- artis
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High School BBC documentary on the Omega-minus discovery (1964)
- PeroK
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Undergrad Accelerator physics terminology: β-beat, tune, coupling, dynamic aperture
- Wrichik Basu
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Graduate Why do protons and neutrons contain exactly 3 quarks?
- mathman
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Undergrad Why can a sigma hyperon decay into 2 or 3 gamma hyperons?
- sysprog
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High School Does the Feynman diagram process actually exist, or is it just for computation?
- ronnie snooker
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High School How Do Quarks Affect Subatomic Particles in Quantum Chromodynamics?
- Attu
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Undergrad Right chiral vs left chiral electrons in the standard model
- HBrown
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High School Thin tracks in cloud chamber with Am-241 source instead of alpha particles
- Josh_Moore23
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Undergrad Query regarding Fermi Gas model
- Saptarshi Sarkar
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High School How are Fermions formed from energy?
- DrDoc
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Undergrad How Can Neutral Currents Be Detected in Particle Physics Experiments?
- Wledig
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Graduate Why does this amplitude not vanish by the Ward identity?
- weningth
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Undergrad Quadrupole deformation in nuclei
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Lab frame and accelerator frame
- Ruihu Zhu
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Undergrad Awesome cloud chamber track (video)
- Ben123
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Undergrad Involuted planes within a circle, Klingelnberg-Palloid involute
- artis
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Undergrad Understanding Nuclear Rotation: Quantum Numbers and Wavefunctions
- kelly0303
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Graduate Delta Baryon Quartet: Constructing from SU(2) Symmetry
- lalo_u
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Undergrad What is the Ideal Plasma Pressure for Successful Fusion?
- korneld
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Graduate What is the energy release of the CNO cycle in carbon fusion?
- VictorMedvil
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Undergrad Static and dynamic excited states
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Relationship between Pileup and inelastic collision events
- Ruihu Zhu
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High School Is glow in the dark shirt radioactive?
- chirhone
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High School Neutrons, fertile, fissile and fissioning
- Flexwheeler
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Undergrad Simple explanation for cross section ratio
- kelly0303
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High School Dark Matter: 6-Quark Particle?
- BWV
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Graduate How can the generators of ##U(1)## be traceless?
- MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Absorption of beta particles by lead
- Elbow_Patches
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Graduate Symmetric limit in Peskin's and Schroeder's (page 655)
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Why won't my homemade cloud chamber show particle tracks?
- doggonemess
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Graduate Possible typo in equations 18.204-18.205 of Peskin and Schroeder
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad How Does Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Work?
- hagopbul
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Undergrad Why is the nuclear force attractive for T=1 pairing but repulsive for T=1 states?
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Why does EDM imply time reversal violation in electrons but not in water molecules?
- kelly0303
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Graduate A derivation in Peskin and Schroeder in chapter 18.
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Propagator of a Scalar Field via Path Integrals
- Wledig
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Undergrad Nucleus energy levels, neutron energy
- artis
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High School States of Matter - particles or atoms?
- Cyberspace
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Undergrad Understanding Coherent Neutron Scattering in Hydrogen Molecules
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Schwartz QFT book, equation 15.59
- Pnin
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High School Why quark charges in multiples of e/3 don't contradict charge quantization
- Rishabh Narula
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Graduate Electromagnetic transitions of ##\psi(2S)##
- B4cklfip
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Undergrad Why does mass matter in Rutherford's experiment?
- Jufa
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Undergrad Confused about the effective range
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Isospin Operator: Act on |ud> State
- B4cklfip
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Undergrad Antimatter energy from a small amount of mass
- Galactic explosion
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Graduate Difference between proportional and mini drift tubes in the D0 experiment
- Federica
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Undergrad Inner Product Between States of Multiple Particles
- Wledig
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Undergrad Cross Section Formula in Peskin and Schroeder
- Wledig
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High School Anti-matter and matter annihilation
- Flexwheeler
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High School Deuterium and Tritium in Nuclear Fusion Bombs: A Powerful Combination
- Flexwheeler
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Undergrad Does the Charge Conjugation Operator Affect Gamma Matrices Similarly?
- The black vegetable
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High School Practical applications of quantum field theory outside particle physics
- debilo
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Undergrad Why do gluons travel at c if their speed shouldn't depend on electric charge?
- Bob3141592
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Graduate Calculation of amplitude with n=5, k=3 using the book by Arkani-Hamed et al
- nrqed
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Undergrad Effective ways of accelerating a 50 picogram particle
- BrandonBerchtold
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Graduate Why does a layer-like structure occur in a cold plasma?
- Indula
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Graduate Is My Localized Yang-Mills Theory Solution Correct?
- Antarres
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Undergrad Alpha decay: why Helium nuclei?
- haushofer
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Undergrad Values of the coupling constants
- gerald V
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Undergrad Can Bose-Einstein condensed helium-4 stimulate alpha emission?
- Spinnor
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Undergrad Why don't nuclei split at thermal energies?
- Zahid Iftikhar
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Graduate Gravitational attraction of a particle to a plate
- pervect
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Graduate An exact expression for the fine structure constant
- Hans de Vries
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Graduate What are Virtual Particles? A 10 Minute Introduction
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Effects of photons having a finite mass
- Saptarshi Sarkar
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Undergrad What is the Minimum Neutron Energy Required for Lithium Fission?
- B4cklfip
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High School Why can I only resolve tangentially on a point particle?
- etotheipi
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Graduate Parameters of neutrino interactions in targets?
- morenopo2012
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High School How does carbon 14 have such a perfect halflife?
- kevinmorais
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Undergrad Article: Supernovae sparked by dark matter in white dwarfs
- .Scott
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Undergrad Why can we not produce a "giant" nucleus?
- fxdung
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Undergrad On the weak force and beta decay
- DaTario
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Undergrad Fissionable and Fissile materials
- Bashayer Abdullah
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Undergrad Color state of quarks in quark-gluon plasma
- Natchanon
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Undergrad Why Does the Higgs Boson Prefer to Decay into W Bosons Over Z Bosons?
- kelly0303
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Undergrad What are the global symmetries before and after symmetry breaking?
- wormwoodsilver101
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Undergrad Single-particle phase spaces for a system of interacting particles
- Riotto
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High School Can elementary particles truly be at rest in an E field?
- nmsurobert
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High School How do ultra-high-energy gamma rays interact with matter?
- neanderthalphysics
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Undergrad New proton radius measurement with electrons favors "muon value"
- mfb
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Graduate Understanding the Form Factor in Electron Scattering
- Fosheimdet
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Undergrad Tritium Phosphorescence: Understanding Electron Capture and Phosphor Changes
- Joseph M. Zias
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Undergrad How is ##\Phi \rightarrow K^{+}K^{-}## decay possible?
- mPlummers
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Undergrad Energy resolution of a homogeneous calorimeter
- hipa7
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Graduate Cross section from subgraph in electron-proton DIS
- weningth
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