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Graduate Finding Particle Velocities in Center of Mass Calculation
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High School Nuclear fusion. Magic neutron. (Basic)
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Graduate Axial Anomaly and Fermion Mass
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Graduate Why Is It Allowed to Drop Higher Order Terms in Lie Algebra Computations?
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Graduate What were the first particles discovered in the quark model?
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Graduate Differential cross-section divergence
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Graduate FeynCalc Tutorial: Using w/ Mathematica to Check Cross Sections
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Graduate Attraction and repulsion for identical particles
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Graduate Longevity of Stau (supersymmetric particle)
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Graduate What is meant by winding state of a field?
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Graduate Feynman rule involving derivative of a field.
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Graduate Majorana representation of Gamma matrices.
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High School What is the significance of measuring attenuation in gamma rays?
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Graduate Unleashing Fusion Power: The Reality of ITER in the 21st Century
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Find Scintillation Detector PPTs Online
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Undergrad Canberra Multiport II Ginie 2000 Stops counting
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Graduate Learn about Dimensional Regularization
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Graduate Rb and Rc problems in electroweak theoy
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Graduate Prove 4*s*k^2 = (s-m^2)^2 | Mandelstam Variables
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Graduate How is the Bethe-Bloch formula used in gamma-ray photon detection?
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Graduate Why Do Muons Decay in Particle Physics?
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Graduate Why three generations of particles
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High School Do particles exist forever? Can Anything Exist forever?
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Undergrad Radioactive Decay - Beta Particles
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Undergrad Fusion Questions: How Does Fusing Nuclei Produce Energy?
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Graduate Particles vs Fields: What's More Fundamental?
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Undergrad Neutron causing Nuclear Fission how?
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Undergrad Proton decay [was: Are atoms 'perpetual machines'?]
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Undergrad Understanding Mediating Particles: A Beginner's Guide
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Undergrad How Does Atom Size Compare to Particle Size?
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Graduate Neutron to Proton Change: The Role of the W Boson
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Graduate Is Cold Fusion Finally Proven? New Demonstration Raises Hopes for Clean Energy
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Graduate Group Theory Notation: SO(n,1) & Poincare Groups Explained
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Graduate Can photon couple to scalar field?
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Graduate Does Higgs Field incorporate with String Theory?
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Graduate Electrodynamics in particle physics
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Graduate Quantum Theory in Curved Spacetime
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Graduate Simple question on SUSY multiplets
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Graduate Particle Trapping: AC Source Questions
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Undergrad Large Hadron Collider Question
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Graduate Understanding Plasma Capacitors and Their Application in High-Voltage Systems
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Graduate Relativistic correction for strong nuclear force?
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Graduate What distinguishes different gluons?
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Undergrad Velocity of atomic (hydrogen) electrons
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Request for Book: "Gauge Theories of the Strong and Electroweak Interaction
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Graduate EW global fit,pole mass,gluon fusion
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Graduate Energy required for particle accelerators
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Undergrad Critics Fear Collider Could Doom Earth
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Graduate The likelyhood of black holes in LHC
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Graduate Calc QCD Form Factors: Numerical Integration
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Graduate How does the chargeless photon carry the electromagnetic force?
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Undergrad Why Does Nuclear Binding Energy Release Energy?
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Graduate What Explains the Mass Differences Among the Three Pions?
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Graduate Green Function approach is more physical?
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Graduate Why does massive carrier implies finite range?
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Graduate Planck Boson: The Missing Piece in Unifying Gravity and Quantum Forces
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Graduate Neutron Resonance: Cross Sections in Reaction w/ Targets
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Graduate Antiphotons: Same or Different? Mainstream Science Says Yes
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Graduate Useless ponderings about subatomic particles
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Graduate Comparing Charge Radius & Compton Wavelength of a Proton
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Graduate Questions About Neutrino Oscillations - Answered by Sam
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Graduate Why there are no spinors for GL(n)
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Graduate Why Are Nuclei with Excess Neutrons Unstable?
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Graduate Reflection of Photons on Prisms: Directional Force?
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Graduate If an electron is a continuous wave then…
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High School Understanding the Higgs Particle
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Graduate Is the numerical value of action functional of any importance?
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Graduate Motivation for SU(2) x U(1) and charge operator
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Graduate Why f0(600) is not seen on lattice computations?
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Graduate Do the colors of quarks really exist or are they just a convention in QCD?
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Graduate Electron positron helicities and gamma-5
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Graduate What Are the Key Differences Between Fermion and Scalar Field Interactions?
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Undergrad Difference between a neutrino and an antineutrino
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Graduate C-Parity Oddity of Magnetic Current in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
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Graduate Coupling the gauge bosons to the Higgs scalars
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Graduate Threshold energy of a photoproduction
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Undergrad Types of energy released in a nuclear explosion
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Graduate Why Must the Term dL/d(v^2) v.e Be Linear in v to Be a Total Time Derivative?
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Graduate How many elementary particles are there?
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Graduate Forces Mediated by Gauge Bosons: Valid Questions?
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Graduate Calculate that the proton and neutron in a deuteron
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Undergrad What Makes Hydrogen Bombs More Powerful Than Atomic Bombs?
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Graduate Unusual Isotope Data: Have You Encountered This Before?
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Graduate Lagrangian is defined as the difference between kinetic and potential
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Graduate Why Does the Vector Current Contribute to Pion Decay?
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Graduate Uses of Particles: Discovering Real-World Applications
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Graduate Terminology of rho electroproduction
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Graduate Uncovering the Missing Gluon: The Mystery of 8 Gluons in SU(3)
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Graduate Searches for Quark Gluon Plasma and Color Glass Condensate
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Graduate C60 + DT Fusion: Can Buckyballs Squeeze Hydrogen to Metallic State?
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Graduate Would baryons and their antiparticles interact via the strong interaction?
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Graduate How Can You Reproduce and Understand the Meissner Effect Experiment?
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Graduate Searching for Gluon Radiation Probability Equation for Z Decay Jet Structure
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Graduate Is There a Maximum Temperature Limit in Physics?
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Graduate Why Does the Top Quark Move More Sluggishly Than the Bottom Quark?
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Graduate The antineutrino in beta decay.
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Graduate Toy Field Theories for Calculating Cross-Sections
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Graduate Why Does Iron Mark the Limit for Energy-Producing Fusion in Stars?
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Graduate Lab frame versus center of momentum frame
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Graduate Proton Filtering: Is it Possible?
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