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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?

  • sanman
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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?

  • JPC
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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 Can you filter protons from a gas like oxygen?

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Graduate Why are quarks the fundamental representation of SU(3)?

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Undergrad Why is e and ln(2) used in the radioactive decay formula?

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Graduate Higgs mechanism and gauge theory

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Graduate Pure Yang-Mills theory in D=1+1

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Graduate Calculating the Neutrino Spectrum for Cr Decay to V

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Undergrad Why does beta decay happen spontaneously without external triggers?

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Graduate Beta Decay: Why Isomeric State Has Long Half-Life

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Graduate Interaction without T-Channel: S-Channel Only

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High School Peter Heuer High School Students Build Cyclotron - Peter Heuer

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Graduate What is light-cone gauge and why use it?

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Graduate Why is the decay rate ratio squared not fourth power of coupling constant?

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Graduate Weak Interaction Invariance Under CPT Symmetry

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Graduate NY Times: Potential Hazards of the LHC

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Graduate What factors influence the decay width of particles?

  • touqra
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Graduate Why does the CKM matrix being unitary conserve probability?

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Graduate Why does a hyperon decay involve a W boson more massive than the hyperon?

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Change the date to my old genie2k .cnf file

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Graduate The Role of Propagators in Determining Decay Rates

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Graduate Is U(1)xU(1) a valid electroweak theory with massive photons?

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Graduate PhD Thesis on Neutrinos: Seeking Advice

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Graduate Weak and Strong Processes For Z =/= Z(Max Stability)

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Graduate Helicity - Experiment proving CP violation

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Graduate Q values for strong weak and EM interactions?

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Graduate Q: What is the role of axial vector coupling in e+e- annihilation?

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Graduate How do parities add up in a two-body system in the shell model?

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Graduate Virtual Particle Interaction: Will Virtual Boson Leave Track?

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Undergrad What is the role of Thallium in NaI scintillators?

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Graduate Virtual particles stolen from the universe?

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High School Whats the difference between colour and flavour?

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Graduate Is the Cabibbo angle just a measure of quark coupling strengths?

  • Barny
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Graduate Trace formula for e⁺e⁻ → μ⁺μ⁻ in Peskin-Schroeder 5.4

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Graduate Flavour-SU(2) for Pion-Multiplett

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Graduate How do you create protons, neutrons, and electrons from energy?

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Graduate Your Thoughts on Black Hole Production at CERN

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Undergrad A question on converting MeV to GeV

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Graduate Photon-Proton Cross Section vs Electron-Photon

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Graduate Latest info about parton fragmentation

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Graduate Why wasn't the Higgs boson found before the LHC?

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Graduate Is Spin a Geometrical Indicator of Elementary Particles' Nature?

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Undergrad Matter/antimatter annihilation question

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High School What and how antimatter is created

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Graduate Is electron-positron collision annihilation or conversion?

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High School What's this filaments of a nuclear explosion?

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Graduate Grand Unification Theory fine structure constant

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Graduate the observed masses of the particles R. Feynman

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Graduate Origin of terminology (baryon number, hypercharge, strangeness)

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Graduate Derivation of Yukawa potential: quandry

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Graduate How to calculate Q² for colliding beam processes

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Graduate Visualization of electron as a wave

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Graduate Helicity (as related to photons and Z-bosons)

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Graduate Can equation of motion depend on the choice of metric?

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Graduate QCD Confinement: Wilson Loops & Quantum Fluctuations

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Graduate Understanding Relativistic Kinematics for Proton-Photon Collisions

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Graduate How is the Fermi coupling constant related to the muon decay lifetime?

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Graduate How much electricity can be generated from light water reactor waste decay heat?

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Graduate Questions on super gamama rays

  • atom888
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Graduate How Does Energy Dependence Affect Light Yield in PST Scintillators?

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High School What if we split the proton and destroy our world?

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Graduate Black Hole Evaporation: Charged Particle Energy Effects

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Graduate Variational Technique for Derivatives of $\phi$

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Graduate Is possible some elements absorb neutrons, without any nuclear reaction?

  • Physicsissuef
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High School Cern LHC Experiments: Date of Higgs Particle Search

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Undergrad Why there is more energy released in fusion than fission?

  • Physicsissuef
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Undergrad Is covering a high radioactivity alpha source with a low Z material safer?

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High School Does an A mass always give the same amount of energy?

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High School Why are some particles more strongly ionising than others?

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Graduate Understanding Spin: Subatomic Particle Properties & Measurements

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Undergrad Volts/amps for an electric arc between points

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Undergrad (Neutron capture) cross section

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Graduate Up/Down Quarks: How Their Charge Was Determined

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Graduate How are neutrons accelerated for experimental use?

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Graduate Not back-to-back emission of decay products

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Graduate W and Z boson production and decay at e-e+ collider

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Undergrad Function of Neutron: Mass, Charge, Gravity?

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Graduate Stripping Electrons: Can Plates Charge in Open Air?

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Graduate Why must identical quarks be in the same spin state?

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Undergrad Why pair production requires a nucleus to conserve momentum

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Graduate Obtaining BPS States in Interacting Field Theory

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Graduate Are there other spin-0 particles besides the tachyon?

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Graduate Why does bremsstrahlung need three vertices in Feynman diagrams?

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Graduate Lowest energy neutrinos we can observe

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Undergrad Does a neutron have the same diameter as a proton?

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Graduate First superheavy element found in nature

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Graduate Muon-Catalyzed Fusion of Metallic Hydrogen

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Graduate Are the uds particle wavefunctions correct in explaining the particle octet?

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Graduate Obtaining Dirac equation from symmetries

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Graduate Looking for 'Independent-particle models of the 1930s' by Karen E Johnson

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