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Graduate Can we harness the power of atoms for energy through fission or fusion?
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Graduate Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem
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Graduate Conservation of momentum at Annihilation
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Graduate Drawing Feynman Diagrams with Feynmf
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Graduate How did he calculate the probabilities?
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Undergrad Understanding Yield: Does the Equation Need Breaking Down?
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Graduate The Potential of Nuclear Antennas for High-Frequency Communication"
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Graduate Problem in understanding the Isospin
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Graduate Beta Threshold Energy: Electron vs Positron
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Graduate How Do We Model Positronium in Quantum Mechanics?
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High School If Neutron and Proton have some diff. mass then why?
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Undergrad Origin of Charges: Electron & Proton Charges
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Graduate Intermediate State in Standard Model Book - Clarify!
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Graduate Binding Energy-same question-different approach
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Undergrad Question-binding energy per atom
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Graduate Need some help interpreting the muon energy spectrum
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High School What Are Resonances in Physics?
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Graduate Magnetic Monopoles: Expected Characteristics & Properties
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Graduate Compact Muon Solenoid experiment simulations
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Graduate Conditions for thermal neutron induced fission
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Graduate Can There Be a Fourth Generation of Charged Leptons in the Standard Model?
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Graduate Neutrino Oscillations: Massiveness & Non-Oscillation of Electrons, Muons & Taus
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Undergrad Is Everything in the Universe Made from Hydrogen Atoms?
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Graduate Slow neutron beam deflection by a magnetic field
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Undergrad Why Does Fusion Release Energy?
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Graduate Half Life of Radioactive Isotopes
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Graduate What Determines the Upper Energy Limit of Gamma Rays?
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Undergrad How Does the Weak Force Compare to Gravity in Strength?
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Graduate Do Electron-Positron Scattering Cross Sections Always Increase with Energy?
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Graduate Existence of virtual particles
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High School Atomic BOMB but not RADIOACTIVE
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Graduate Moon and GUT scale coincidences
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Graduate The Irony of the Higgs Mechanism: Giving Mass to the Massless?
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Graduate Symmetry and shape of elementary particles
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Graduate Virtual Particles: Positive or Negative Energy?
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Graduate Vacuum in Quantum Field theory is not empty
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Undergrad Dangers of the Large Hadron Collider: Is James Worried About Nothing?
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Graduate Converting Plutonium: Nuclear Reactions for Harmlessness
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Graduate Understanding the Higgs Mechanism
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Graduate Energy Distribution of Particles in a Liquid
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Graduate Understanding Percolation Threshold and Periodic Boundary in Particle Systems
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Graduate Where can I find scintillation properties for xenon gas?
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Undergrad Can LINAC and Neutrons Be Used for Cancer Treatment?
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Graduate Potential Energy of a Proton/Neutron System
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Graduate A question that bothers me - Photon spin up/down state?
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Graduate Massless photons is a hard concept to grasp
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Graduate Neutral Current - Neutrons and Neutrinos
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Graduate Isospin vs. flavor vs. spin - Difference and similarity?
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Graduate Can a Laser Be Amplified by Plasma?
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Carl's Upcoming Talk at Hawaii Conference
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High School Half Lifes and Critical Conditions
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Graduate Creating Electrons via Compton Scattering
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Unparticle Physics?
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Graduate Interactive fields in QFT - the φ^3 example
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Graduate Double Beta Decay: Questions from a Newbie
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Graduate QED Calculations: Progress Made in Last 25-30 Years
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Graduate MCNP4C: efficiency calculation
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Graduate Difference between pseudorapidity and rapidity
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Graduate Solving Three Body Decay: Colin's Challenge
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Graduate Is CP Invariance Violation Indicated by Neutrino Oscillations?
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Graduate Rho-meson mass due to angular momentum?
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Graduate How do I calculate the beam energy for fixed target experiments?
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Graduate How do quark forces change with distance and attraction?
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Graduate Understanding Isospin in Neutron/Proton System: T & T3
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LHC Magnet Test Failure: Latest Updates and Delay Information
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Graduate Composition of Neutral Pion: uubar, ddbar, or Linear Combination?
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High School Confused about antimatter and matter
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Undergrad Is Caos Theory Helpful in Studying Nuclear Physics?
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Particle cartoons by Roz Chast in Symmetry mag
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Undergrad Nuclear Density: g/cm^3 & Nucleon/F^3
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Graduate Radioactive Decay chain and Masses of Products
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Graduate Spontaneous fission condition of the nucleus
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Graduate Conformal Groups: Lie Algebra of Generators
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Graduate Can the Sun Power a New Generation of Lasers?
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High School Hydrogen when its electron is removed
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Graduate Main Cause of Proton Spin: What Accounts For It?
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Undergrad Neucleons: proton and neucleus
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Undergrad What role does the neutrino play?
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Graduate Where Can I Find Resources for Cross Sections and Decay Rates?
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Graduate What Is the W Boson and Its Role in Beta Decay?
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Graduate What causes a quark to change its flavor?
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Graduate Background Info on Breit-Wigner Formula for Cross Section Interaction
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Graduate Unexplained energy in nuclear process
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Graduate What Is the Accepted Structure of Protons and Neutrons in an Atom's Nucleus?
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Graduate Pauli Exclusion Principle-question
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Graduate Can Binding Energy Be Removed to Separate Quarks?
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Graduate Mystery of the 'Missing' Solar Neutrinos Solved
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Graduate Counting Gluons: The Role of Gluons in Binding Quarks in a Proton
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High School Touching it could be dangerous
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Graduate Atomic and Nuclear Transitions
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Graduate Interaction of particles in a Thin Slice matter
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Graduate Tetraneutrons, quark confinement
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Graduate Form Factors, PDFs, Compton & GPDs: Explained
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Graduate Predicting Nuclear Spin with Shell Model: How is it Calculated and Validated?
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Graduate CKM Matrix and mass eigenstates
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Graduate Asymmetries -vs- Differences in xsecs
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Graduate CERN: Creating New Particles with 6 Quarks?
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Graduate What energy density expected at LHC point of collision?
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Graduate Relation strength interaction and decay time
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Graduate Can the SM accurately calculate the charge radius of a Proton and Neutron?
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