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Undergrad Best Formula for Fitting Nuclear Charge Radius Data
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Undergrad Neutrino Helicity and Spin Uncertainty
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Undergrad Question about gluons and nucleon binding
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High School Relationship between wavelength and concentration of particles
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Undergrad Transmission electron microscope beam focusing
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High School Discovery of the Omega-minus (Documentary)
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Undergrad Clarification of accelerator physics terminology
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Graduate Why Proton & Neutron Contain 3 Quarks - Not 2 or 4?
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Undergrad Why can a sigma hyperon decay into 2 or 3 gamma hyperons?
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High School Does the Feynman diagram process actually exist, or is it just for computation?
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High School How Do Quarks Affect Subatomic Particles in Quantum Chromodynamics?
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Undergrad Right chiral vs left chiral electrons in the standard model
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High School Cloud Chamber Experiment Help - Identifying Particles
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Undergrad Query regarding Fermi Gas model
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High School How are Fermions formed from energy?
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Undergrad How Can Neutral Currents Be Detected in Particle Physics Experiments?
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Graduate Why does this amplitude not vanish by the Ward identity?
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Undergrad Quadrupole deformation in nuclei
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Undergrad Lab frame and accelerator frame
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Undergrad Awesome cloud chamber track (video)
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Undergrad Involuted planes within a circle, Klingelnberg-Palloid involute
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Undergrad Understanding Nuclear Rotation: Quantum Numbers and Wavefunctions
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Graduate Delta Baryon Quartet: Constructing from SU(2) Symmetry
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Undergrad What is the Ideal Plasma Pressure for Successful Fusion?
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Graduate What is the energy release of the CNO cycle in carbon fusion?
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Undergrad Static and dynamic excited states
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Undergrad Relationship between Pileup and inelastic collision events
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High School Is glow in the dark shirt radioactive?
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High School Neutrons, fertile, fissile and fissioning
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Undergrad Simple explanation for cross section ratio
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High School Dark Matter: 6-Quark Particle?
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Graduate How can the generators of ##U(1)## be traceless?
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High School Absorption of beta particles by lead
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Graduate Symmetric limit in Peskin's and Schroeder's (page 655)
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Undergrad My cloud chamber didn't make any tracks....
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Graduate A possible mistake in Equations (18.204)-(18.205) in Peskin & Schroeder
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Undergrad How Does Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Work?
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Undergrad Nuclear Force Behavior: Confusing Isospin Dependence
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Undergrad EDM & Time Reversal: Why Does It Matter?
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Graduate A derivation in Peskin and Schroeder in chapter 18.
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Undergrad Propagator of a Scalar Field via Path Integrals
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Undergrad Nucleus energy levels, neutron energy
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High School States of Matter - particles or atoms?
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Undergrad Understanding Coherent Neutron Scattering in Hydrogen Molecules
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Undergrad Schwartz QFT book, equation 15.59
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High School A doubt on the fundamental unit of charge
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Graduate Electromagnetic transitions of ##\psi(2S)##
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Undergrad Why does mass matter in Rutherford's experiment?
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Undergrad Confused about the effective range
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Undergrad Isospin Operator: Act on |ud> State
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Undergrad Antimatter energy from a small amount of mass
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Graduate Exploring the D0 Experiment: Proportional vs. Mini Drift Tubes
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Undergrad Inner Product Between States of Multiple Particles
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Undergrad Cross Section Formula in Peskin and Schroeder
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High School Anti-matter and matter annihilation
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High School Deuterium and Tritium in Nuclear Fusion Bombs: A Powerful Combination
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Undergrad Does the Charge Conjugation Operator Affect Gamma Matrices Similarly?
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High School QFT Applications: Practical Uses & Designs
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Undergrad Velocity of Bosons: Massless Particles & Electromagnetic Force
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Graduate Calculation of amplitude with n=5, k=3 using the book by Arkani-Hamed et al
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Undergrad Effective ways of accelerating a 50 picogram particle
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Graduate Why does a layer-like structure occur in a cold plasma?
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Graduate Is My Localized Yang-Mills Theory Solution Correct?
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Undergrad Alpha decay: why Helium nuclei?
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Undergrad Values of the coupling constants
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Undergrad Is this a way to stimulate an alpha emitter?
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Undergrad Stability of Nuclei: Why Don't Nuclei Split at Thermal Energies?
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Graduate Gravitational attraction of a particle to a plate
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Graduate An exact expression for the fine structure constant
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Graduate What are Virtual Particles? A 10 Minute Introduction
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Undergrad Effects of photons having a finite mass
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Undergrad What is the Minimum Neutron Energy Required for Lithium Fission?
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High School Why can I only resolve tangentially on a point particle?
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Graduate Parameters of neutrino interactions in targets?
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High School How does carbon 14 have such a perfect halflife?
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Undergrad Article: Supernovae sparked by dark matter in white dwarfs
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Undergrad Why can we not produce a "giant" nucleus?
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Undergrad On the weak force and beta decay
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Undergrad Fissionable and Fissile materials
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Undergrad Color state of quarks in quark-gluon plasma
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Undergrad Why Does the Higgs Boson Prefer to Decay into W Bosons Over Z Bosons?
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Undergrad What are the global symmetries before and after symmetry breaking?
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Undergrad Single-particle phase spaces for a system of interacting particles
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High School Can elementary particles truly be at rest in an E field?
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High School What happens when gamma rays with ultra-high energies interact with matter?
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Undergrad New proton radius measurement with electrons favors "muon value"
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Graduate Understanding the Form Factor in Electron Scattering
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Undergrad Tritium Phosphorescence: Understanding Electron Capture and Phosphor Changes
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Undergrad How is ##\Phi \rightarrow K^{+}K^{-}## decay possible?
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Undergrad Energy resolution of a homogeneous calorimeter
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Graduate Cross section from subgraph in electron-proton DIS
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Undergrad Can a fusion reaction propagate in a cappilary?
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Undergrad Energy momentum of massless particles
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High School What happens during electron capture physically?
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Undergrad Quark Model Families and Masses
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Graduate Help understanding a term in the derivation of #\Pi(\vec(x),t)# for KG eq.
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Undergrad Need a layman's explanation for how scientists contain antimatter
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Undergrad Can Laser Pulses Produce MeV Gamma Rays?
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Undergrad MiniBooNE results at 6.1 sigma: Potential evidence for sterile neutrinos
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High School The electromagnetic force of quarks
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