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Join expert discussion on High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics. Properties, relationships, and interactions of subatomic particles. Experimental and theoretical physics of nuclei and elementary particles.

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Question: What is Virtuality for a Virtual Photon?

Apr 23, 2006 · Replies 3 · May 2, 2006

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Does the nucleon-nucleon interaction depend on momentum?

Apr 27, 2006 · Replies 4 · May 1, 2006

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What Is Produced When Nickel-60 Captures a Neutron?

Apr 27, 2006 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2006

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Detection of Elementary Particles

Apr 25, 2006 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2006

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Absence of gravity at atomic level at all?

Apr 21, 2006 · Replies 7 · Apr 26, 2006

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How could 2nd and 3rd gen. quarks be possibly discovered?

Apr 14, 2006 · Replies 13 · Apr 25, 2006

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Exclusion plots and cross-section?

Apr 20, 2006 · Replies 6 · Apr 22, 2006

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Why fundamental forces change their strength?

Apr 21, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 22, 2006

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Is an accelerator the same thing as a collider?

Apr 19, 2006 · Replies 11 · Apr 21, 2006

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Does it take work to hold an atom together?

Apr 18, 2006 · Replies 8 · Apr 20, 2006

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Strong nuclear force vs. electromagnetism

Apr 16, 2006 · Replies 4 · Apr 20, 2006

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What Are the New Insights from Bs - Anti-Bs Mixing Measurements at Fermilab?

Apr 19, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 19, 2006

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Is the Standard Model overly speculative ?

Apr 17, 2006 · Replies 7 · Apr 19, 2006

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Understand Nuclear Scattering - Can Anyone Explain?

Apr 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 18, 2006

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What is the physical explanation for mass difference in nuclear reactions?

Apr 18, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 18, 2006

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Nuclear fusion and binding energy

Apr 17, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 18, 2006

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Why is U235 used for chain reaction but not U238

Mar 24, 2006 · Replies 19 · Apr 16, 2006

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Strong interaction in hadronic hydrogen atoms

Mar 21, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 9, 2006

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Understanding the Violation of Parity in Weak Interactions

Mar 30, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 8, 2006

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Massive and massless quark renormalization in QCD

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 8, 2006

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Plasma Physics: A Comprehensive Introduction

Mar 4, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 7, 2006

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Chances of Strangelet Forming?

Mar 31, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 7, 2006

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Can Higher Energy Photons Create Heavier Particle Pairs?

Feb 18, 2006 · Replies 21 · Apr 4, 2006

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How Do Particles and Anti-Particles Coexist Without Annihilating Each Other?

Apr 3, 2006 · Replies 7 · Apr 4, 2006

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Why Can't Photons Have a Spin of 0 Like Gravitons?

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 3, 2006

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Understanding Isotopic Spin in Standard Model Doublets: Electron or Neutrino?

Apr 1, 2006 · Replies 5 · Apr 3, 2006

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A plasma is typically an ionized gas

Apr 2, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 2, 2006

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The fundemental forces: four or three?

Mar 27, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 27, 2006

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Explaining How Particles Carry Forces

Mar 20, 2006 · Replies 12 · Mar 27, 2006

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Graviton Properties, best guesses?

Mar 19, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 24, 2006

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Can someone please explain the cp variation?

Mar 23, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 23, 2006

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Both the object and the particles can move?

Mar 23, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 23, 2006

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Nuclear Decay: Pure Beta vs. Mixed Beta/Gamma Emitters

Mar 22, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 23, 2006

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Where Can I Find Detailed Equations Like Dirac's and Einstein's?

Mar 19, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 21, 2006

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Triton Nucleus & C14: Radiogenic Properties & Instability

Mar 18, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 18, 2006

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On the Dirac equation in a gravitation field

Mar 16, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 16, 2006

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Understanding the Interactions of Gamma Rays with Matter

Mar 13, 2006 · Replies 6 · Mar 16, 2006

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Is a Ring Accelerator the Same as a Cyclotron?

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 14, 2006

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Information on a fission reaction

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 13, 2006

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Charge Conservation in Neutron Decay

Mar 12, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 13, 2006

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Why do gases absorb neutrons less readily than water?

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 10, 2006

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Are neutrinos an example of quantum tunneling?

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 8, 2006

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Do elementary particles have attributes?

Mar 4, 2006 · Replies 4 · Mar 8, 2006

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Nuclear Power, a few questions

Mar 7, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 8, 2006

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Why does the strong nuclear force become repulsive at small distances?

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 8, 2006

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Why Does the Neutron Have a Long Lifetime?

Mar 5, 2006 · Replies 16 · Mar 8, 2006

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What Are the Potential Applications of Nuclear Fusion?

Mar 5, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 8, 2006

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What is forward-backward assymetry, charge assymetry?

Mar 7, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 7, 2006

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Investigating Superconducting Relativistic Vacuum - Reilly Atkinson

Feb 27, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 6, 2006

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Is There a Limit to Achieving a Perfect Vacuum in Deep Space?

Feb 27, 2006 · Replies 12 · Mar 4, 2006

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How are elementary particles born?

Feb 18, 2006 · Replies 4 · Mar 2, 2006

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Why Are Photons Emitted in Neutral Particle Annihilations?

Mar 2, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 2, 2006

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Particles like neutrino have zero mass and zero charge

Sep 14, 2005 · Replies 15 · Mar 2, 2006

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Packing Fraction of H Mass 2: 2.01402u

Feb 28, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 1, 2006

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SU(3) Decomposition of Antiquark - Antiquark

Feb 24, 2006 · Replies 9 · Mar 1, 2006

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Is the Charge of a Positron the Same as a Proton?

Feb 26, 2006 · Replies 5 · Feb 28, 2006

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Infrared Unification: Quarks and Electrons Attract Equal Force

Feb 25, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 27, 2006

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Standard Model help requested .

Feb 22, 2006 · Replies 6 · Feb 24, 2006

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From Atoms to Quarks and Beyond: A historical panorama

Feb 21, 2006 · Replies 4 · Feb 23, 2006

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Attractive Forces: Understanding Particle Exchange

Feb 22, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 23, 2006

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Understanding Decay Chains in Nuclear Physics | U238 Example Explained

Feb 21, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 23, 2006

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What are force carrying particles and how do they carry force without mass?

Feb 18, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 22, 2006

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What is the reason for the specific number of quarks in baryons and fermions?

Feb 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 17, 2006

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What about U-236 makes it unstable?

Feb 15, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 15, 2006

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Why is the Z vector Boson heavier then most quarks?

Feb 6, 2006 · Replies 3 · Feb 12, 2006

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Are Bosons Real and How Do They Defy the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

Feb 6, 2006 · Replies 9 · Feb 11, 2006

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Massless Charged Particles: Fact or Fiction?

Jan 22, 2006 · Replies 13 · Feb 10, 2006

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Box containing particles and be left alone

Feb 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 9, 2006

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Raw data for neutrino oscillations

Feb 3, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 6, 2006

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Quark Confinement Period, a Question.

Feb 3, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 6, 2006

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How many mesons have been discovered?

Feb 1, 2006 · Replies 4 · Feb 3, 2006

Replies: 4

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Is the Higgs Field Essential for the Standard Model's Consistency?

Feb 1, 2006 · Replies 5 · Feb 3, 2006

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Why electron doesn't fall into nucleon in a atom?

Jan 31, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 1, 2006

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Muon g-2 and the Standard Model: Updates and Questions

Jan 25, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jan 30, 2006

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Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity

Jan 30, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 30, 2006

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Deuterium as opposed to di-proton

Jan 24, 2006 · Replies 5 · Jan 27, 2006

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Which Came First the Particle or the Field?

Jan 3, 2006 · Replies 12 · Jan 25, 2006

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What is a graviton and why is it considered a boson?

Dec 18, 2005 · Replies 9 · Jan 25, 2006

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The Power of Idle Home PCs: Lattice QCD Project

Jan 22, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 23, 2006

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Electron Light Absorption in a Hard Vacuum Diode

Jan 19, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jan 20, 2006

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Currents & Multiplets: Understanding the Algebra of SU(N)

Jan 12, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 17, 2006

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What are the factors that determine the different lifetimes of particle decays?

Jan 13, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jan 17, 2006

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Are there Rules for Quark Interactions and Particle Formation?

Jan 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jan 17, 2006

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Is There a Fourth Fundamental Force Discovered in 1986?

Dec 9, 2005 · Replies 9 · Jan 13, 2006

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Unravelling the Mysteries of Radioactive Decay

Jan 7, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jan 9, 2006

Replies: 6

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Particle Spin Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Spin Phenomenon

Dec 21, 2005 · Replies 11 · Jan 6, 2006

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How Does the 3rd Neutron Form in a Nuclear Fusion Reaction?

Jan 5, 2006 · Replies 8 · Jan 5, 2006

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Searching for the Higgs Field: 95% Confidence of Existence

Dec 15, 2005 · Replies 33 · Jan 3, 2006

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Symmetry the new Ptolemaic Theory?

Dec 3, 2005 · Replies 35 · Jan 3, 2006

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Forces are actually involved in radioactivity

Dec 22, 2005 · Replies 23 · Jan 2, 2006

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What Is a Quark? Proton Composition & Size

Oct 11, 2005 · Replies 5 · Dec 31, 2005

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Can a Functional Equation Solve the Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity?

Dec 25, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 26, 2005

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What is the maximum energy density of photons in one cubic meter?

Dec 29, 2004 · Replies 8 · Dec 24, 2005

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Is an electron the true anti-particle of a proton?

Nov 18, 2005 · Replies 22 · Dec 23, 2005

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Energy from proton and antiproton

Dec 20, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 22, 2005

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These quarks just don't add up.

Dec 17, 2005 · Replies 13 · Dec 21, 2005

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The constituents of a neutron?

Dec 20, 2005 · Replies 4 · Dec 21, 2005

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Unraveling the Mysteries of Neutrinos: Spin, Mass, and Their Role in Dark Matter

Dec 19, 2005 · Replies 4 · Dec 21, 2005

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Attraction between two Hydrogen Atoms

Dec 12, 2005 · Replies 6 · Dec 20, 2005

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Do Gravitons Exist? | Physics Forums

Dec 5, 2005 · Replies 53 · Dec 19, 2005

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Particle Physics

Welcome to the Particle Physics forum!

Particle physics is a branch of physics that explores the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting upon them at the smallest scales. It involves the study of subatomic particles, such as quarks, leptons, and bosons, and their interactions.

Particle accelerators and detectors are crucial tools in this field, allowing scientists to probe the properties of particles by colliding them at high energies. The Standard Model of particle physics encapsulates our current understanding of these elementary particles and their interactions, but researchers continually seek to expand this framework and explore phenomena such as dark matter and dark energy.

Particle physics plays a central role in unraveling the fundamental nature of the universe, helping us comprehend the building blocks that form all matter and the forces governing their behavior.

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