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Graduate Dirac Equation and Spinor Field Transformations: Understanding the Basics
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Undergrad Isotope Stability: Factors Explained
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Graduate Positron and anti-proton existence
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Graduate Why Do Antimatter and Matter Annihilate When They Collide?
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Graduate Perfectly Rigid Bodies and Quarks
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Undergrad Nuclear Chemistry: Explaining Binding Energy and Mass Defect
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Graduate How Can Neutrino Spin Be Measured Beyond Decay Processes?
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Graduate Do Weak Mediators Need to be Massive?
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Graduate Atomic Nuclei: Liquid, Solid, Charged - Explained
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Graduate Where can I find step-by-step calculus for QFT processes online?
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Graduate What Happens When Atoms Age and Decay: Fundamental Forces at Play?
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Undergrad Photons associated with magnetic force
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Graduate If the higgs boson is discovered, what are the implications
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Graduate Spin Polarization and Momentum in Particle Decay
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Graduate Finding Rest Energy of Delta (0 charge & 0 strangeness)
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Graduate Theoretical value of sin(2\beta)
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Graduate Q&A: Understanding Quark Gluon Plasma
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Undergrad How do I write a nuclear equation for the annihilation of a positron?
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Graduate Can a Particle at Rest Spontaneously Disintegrate into Multiple Particles?
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Graduate Why is uds->uud+danti-up an allowed hardron reaction?
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Undergrad Why Radioactive Decay is Exponential: A Simple Explanation
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Graduate What Are the Latest Advancements in Particle Physics for Beginners?
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Undergrad Understanding Radioactivity Half Lives and Their Mechanism
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Graduate Why Don't Light Nuclei Undergo Spontaneous Fission?
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Undergrad Hi everybody I thought I'd introduce myself. I have been lurking
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Graduate Why is parity maximally violated in weak interactions?
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Graduate Interesting Particle Accelerator
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Graduate Quark Structure of Particles & Antiparticles: Rules & Order
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Graduate Can we accelerate particles to arbitrarily high energies?
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Undergrad NAI(Thallium doped) Scintillator Calibration?
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Graduate Radiative Gluon/Photon: Tree Level vs. Higher Corrections
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Graduate Nuclear Shell Model - Spin-parity
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Graduate Gravitons and infinite regress.
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Graduate Help with a formula in Weinberg
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Graduate Is Nuclear Isomer Research Still Viable for Harnessing Energy?
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Graduate Uncovering the Mysteries of the h- Particle
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Graduate More generations of leptons and quarks
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Undergrad Derivations of the Decay Constant Equation.
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Graduate Help with page 73 of Weinbergs QFT, vol.1
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Graduate QED Path Integrals: Weinberg QFT Book Explained
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Undergrad Why Does Particle Emission Follow a Poisson Distro?
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Undergrad Beta-Voltalics Output: Radiation & Silicon Requirements
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Graduate What is the significance of the kinetic term in a scalar field theory?
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Graduate GUTs: Understanding SU(5), SO(10) & E6
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Graduate Chiral anomaly, pion to photon decay
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Graduate Calculating Energy Released in Triplealpha Process
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Graduate Evidence for the existence of neutrinos.
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Graduate Can GUTs Explain Yukawa Couplings?
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Undergrad Particular nuclide to become half its initial value
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Graduate Is the Higgs Boson a force or just a manifestation of vacuum energy?
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Undergrad Calculate Depth of Water & Shielding for X-Rays (10MeV)
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Graduate What Will the LHC Reveal About the Standard Model of Physics?
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Graduate What Are the Latest Innovations in Matter Transformation for Alternative Energy?
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Graduate Higgs Particles: Big Mass, Bigger Detection Challenge?
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Undergrad S- and P-Wave Cross Section Explained
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Graduate Unravelling the Mysteries of the Strong Force
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Graduate Massless Particles: Can Photons Travel Faster than Light?
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Graduate Neutron Reaction: Calculating Total Cross Section
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Graduate Nuclear Shell Model: Explaining Nucleon Occupancy
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Graduate How Does the Existence of Sterile Neutrinos Impact Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?
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Graduate CP-Violation /Strong CP Problem
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Undergrad Nuclear detonation in outer space
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Graduate Determining the Isotope Produced by U238 Decay
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Graduate Solving the Singularity Problem: Uncovering the Smallest Particles
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Graduate How Does Layering Affect Beta Particle Penetration and Energy Loss?
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Graduate Does Gravity Affect Beta Particle Absorption in Aluminium Foils?
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Graduate What exactly is z-pinch fusion
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Graduate Experimental Verification of Fermion Gravitation: Do Electrons Feel Gravity?
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Graduate How Does Detector Resolution Affect the True Width of the J/psi Particle?
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Graduate Photon Splitting? Glynis Explores Possibilities
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Graduate Is neutron-neutron fusion easier to facilitate than proton-proton
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Graduate Do the virtual particles produce a recognizable gravitational force?
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Graduate Neutrino Mass & Right Handed Neutrinos
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High School Explaining Particle Collision Picture to a Non-Physics Person
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Graduate Doubt about Bhabha scattering.
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Graduate Higgs boson detection is it possible as of 2008
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Undergrad Waves or particles or waves of particles?
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Graduate Production of transuranic elements in Nature
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Graduate The constants of physics not constant
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Graduate Designing a DIY Electron Beam Generator: Vacuum & Helium Questions
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Graduate Dirac, Majorana & a missing factor of 2
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Graduate Can Leptons & Quarks Oscillate?
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Graduate What is the Lepton Current for Tau Lepton Decay in the Rest Frame?
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Graduate Multiwire Proportional-Chamber doesn't work
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High School What Is IPS in Geiger Counter Measurements?
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Graduate What is SU(2)xU(1) Unification in Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions?
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Graduate Would these work? this is just academic interest.
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Graduate Recent and Recommended Nuclear Radii for All Isotopes
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Control creation time of light particles
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Graduate Pions - how they interact with Baryons
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Graduate Weinberg, Vol. 1: Path Integrals Query
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Graduate Why are gauge fields in the adjoint rep?
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Graduate How Does Self-Absorption Affect Intensity in a Spherical Gamma-Ray Source?
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Graduate Weak interaction - conservation laws
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Graduate Hypercharge Conservation in Weak Interactions | Help Needed
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Graduate Is the Moment of Inertia Formula for a Fluid Nucleus Accurate?
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Graduate Are Elementary Particles Distinguishable?
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