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Undergrad Quarks in a meson, antibaryon, baryon

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Undergrad Inclusive, semi-exclusive and exclusive nuclear reaction

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Undergrad Neutrino Oscillation: Learn About the Experiment

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Graduate How can I simplify this complex integration for regularization?

  • robousy
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Graduate The different lifetimes of W boson and Pion?

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Graduate Higgs Mechanism: Does it Give Mass to All Particles?

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Graduate Why do some heavy elements prefer beta decay over other forms of decay?

  • buraqenigma
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Graduate Can a neutral pion decay to a neutrino and an anti-neutrino?

  • isospin
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Graduate Relativistic quantum mechanics

  • Gigi
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Undergrad How fun is particle physics research? (re:computation work)

  • RasslinGod
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Graduate Gyromagnetic Ratio: Quarks, Gluons, Antiquarks

  • touqra
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Graduate Can Laser Fusion Revolutionize Energy Production?

  • Rade
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Graduate Resonant Plasma/New ICF method

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Graduate Dirac Equation and Spinor Field Transformations: Understanding the Basics

  • Marco_84
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Undergrad Isotope Stability: Factors Explained

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Graduate Positron and anti-proton existence

  • Corkery
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Graduate Understanding Z-Pinch Plasma Behavior for Hydrogen Ion Stream Compression

  • lilrex
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Graduate Why Do Antimatter and Matter Annihilate When They Collide?

  • Helical
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Graduate Perfectly Rigid Bodies and Quarks

  • Meatbot
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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?

  • kilokhan
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Graduate Do Weak Mediators Need to be Massive?

  • touqra
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Graduate Atomic Nuclei: Liquid, Solid, Charged - Explained

  • mist
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Graduate Where can I find step-by-step calculus for QFT processes online?

  • Marco_84
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Graduate What Happens When Atoms Age and Decay: Fundamental Forces at Play?

  • Skhandelwal
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Undergrad Photons associated with magnetic force

  • yangonite
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Graduate If the higgs boson is discovered, what are the implications

  • jamus
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Graduate Spin Polarization and Momentum in Particle Decay

  • FortranMan
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Graduate Finding Rest Energy of Delta (0 charge & 0 strangeness)

  • stevenbarea
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Graduate Theoretical value of sin(2\beta)

  • Magister
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Graduate Q&A: Understanding Quark Gluon Plasma

  • Ene Dene
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Undergrad How do I write a nuclear equation for the annihilation of a positron?

  • v_pino
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Graduate Can a Particle at Rest Spontaneously Disintegrate into Multiple Particles?

  • lugita15
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Graduate Why is uds->uud+danti-up an allowed hardron reaction?

  • EDerkatch
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Undergrad Why Radioactive Decay is Exponential: A Simple Explanation

  • sagan119
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Graduate What Are the Latest Advancements in Particle Physics for Beginners?

  • K.J.Healey
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Undergrad Understanding Radioactivity Half Lives and Their Mechanism

  • Denton
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Graduate Why Don't Light Nuclei Undergo Spontaneous Fission?

  • EDerkatch
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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?

  • touqra
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Graduate Interesting Particle Accelerator

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Graduate Quark Structure of Particles & Antiparticles: Rules & Order

  • neelakash
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Graduate Can we accelerate particles to arbitrarily high energies?

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Undergrad NAI(Thallium doped) Scintillator Calibration?

  • Monsoon
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Graduate Radiative Gluon/Photon: Tree Level vs. Higher Corrections

  • touqra
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Graduate Nuclear Shell Model - Spin-parity

  • Warr
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Graduate Gravitons and infinite regress.

  • KingOrdo
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Graduate Help with a formula in Weinberg

  • Jim Kata
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Graduate Is Nuclear Isomer Research Still Viable for Harnessing Energy?

  • sanman
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Graduate Uncovering the Mysteries of the h- Particle

  • Daniel Y.
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Graduate More generations of leptons and quarks

  • Jim Kata
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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

  • Reggaerules
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Undergrad Why Does Particle Emission Follow a Poisson Distro?

  • marc.morcos
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Undergrad Beta-Voltalics Output: Radiation & Silicon Requirements

  • Seth T
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Graduate What is the significance of the kinetic term in a scalar field theory?

  • robousy
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Graduate GUTs: Understanding SU(5), SO(10) & E6

  • Jim Kata
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Graduate Chiral anomaly, pion to photon decay

  • JosephButler
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Graduate Calculating Energy Released in Triplealpha Process

  • Ayame17
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Graduate Evidence for the existence of neutrinos.

  • _Mayday_
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Graduate Can GUTs Explain Yukawa Couplings?

  • Jim Kata
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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?

  • CJames
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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?

  • dpackard
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Graduate What Are the Latest Innovations in Matter Transformation for Alternative Energy?

  • irex
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Graduate Higgs Particles: Big Mass, Bigger Detection Challenge?

  • Bowles
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Undergrad S- and P-Wave Cross Section Explained

  • touqra
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Graduate Unravelling the Mysteries of the Strong Force

  • wolram
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Graduate Massless Particles: Can Photons Travel Faster than Light?

  • _Mayday_
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Graduate Neutron Reaction: Calculating Total Cross Section

  • ndtkhanhtrinh
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Graduate Nuclear Shell Model: Explaining Nucleon Occupancy

  • Winga
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Graduate How Does the Existence of Sterile Neutrinos Impact Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?

  • S1nG
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Graduate CP-Violation /Strong CP Problem

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Undergrad Nuclear detonation in outer space

  • Alan J.
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Graduate Determining the Isotope Produced by U238 Decay

  • Mr.Brown
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Graduate Solving the Singularity Problem: Uncovering the Smallest Particles

  • h.g.Whiz
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Graduate How Does Layering Affect Beta Particle Penetration and Energy Loss?

  • prochatz
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Graduate Does Gravity Affect Beta Particle Absorption in Aluminium Foils?

  • prochatz
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Graduate What exactly is z-pinch fusion

  • PlasmaSphere
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Graduate Experimental Verification of Fermion Gravitation: Do Electrons Feel Gravity?

  • jostpuur
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Graduate How Does Detector Resolution Affect the True Width of the J/psi Particle?

  • malawi_glenn
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Graduate Photon Splitting? Glynis Explores Possibilities

  • Glynis
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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?

  • Meatbot
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Graduate Neutrino Mass & Right Handed Neutrinos

  • Jim Kata
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High School Explaining Particle Collision Picture to a Non-Physics Person

  • JanKo
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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

  • japam
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Graduate The constants of physics not constant

  • Jim Kata
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Graduate Designing a DIY Electron Beam Generator: Vacuum & Helium Questions

  • QuasarBT
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Graduate Dirac, Majorana & a missing factor of 2

  • EL
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Graduate Can Leptons & Quarks Oscillate?

  • Jim Kata
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Graduate What is the Lepton Current for Tau Lepton Decay in the Rest Frame?

  • Willa
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Graduate Multiwire Proportional-Chamber doesn't work

  • quark.expr
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High School What Is IPS in Geiger Counter Measurements?

  • Rajini
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Graduate What is SU(2)xU(1) Unification in Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions?

  • Magister
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