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Graduate How do one describe particles with chirality?

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Undergrad What Unique Thesis Topics Can You Explore in Nuclear and Particle Physics?

  • Yrrepy
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Undergrad Electron Speed at 0K - Patrick's Question

  • pangsiukwong
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Graduate Can a Higgs Field in an Isospin Triplet Give Mass to a Standard Model Quark?

  • arivero
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Graduate Free-Free Absorption Coefficient: Intuitive Concept

  • Ethelred
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Graduate Anti-neutron + Electron reaction?

  • Gib Z
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Graduate Neutron Interactions: Collisions & Absorption

  • Morga
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Graduate Interesting new model(s) on the hierarchy problem

  • Haelfix
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Graduate Understanding the Higgs Field and Mechanism

  • Lakshya
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Graduate Is Element 18001 Reactium More Reactive Than Cesium and Rubidium?

  • Longrange
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Undergrad Supergun compared to nuclear bombs

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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

  • tnho
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Graduate Conservation of momentum at Annihilation

  • max_emerso
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Graduate Drawing Feynman Diagrams with Feynmf

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Graduate How did he calculate the probabilities?

  • Urvabara
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Undergrad Understanding Yield: Does the Equation Need Breaking Down?

  • Potaire
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Graduate The Potential of Nuclear Antennas for High-Frequency Communication"

  • sanman
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Graduate Problem in understanding the Isospin

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Graduate Beta Threshold Energy: Electron vs Positron

  • Puffin
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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?

  • rivalslayer
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Undergrad Origin of Charges: Electron & Proton Charges

  • ron_jay
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Graduate Intermediate State in Standard Model Book - Clarify!

  • neelakash
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Graduate Binding Energy-same question-different approach

  • Potaire
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Undergrad Question-binding energy per atom

  • Potaire
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Graduate Need some help interpreting the muon energy spectrum

  • stakhanov
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High School What Are Resonances in Physics?

  • captain
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Graduate Magnetic Monopoles: Expected Characteristics & Properties

  • petm1
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Graduate Compact Muon Solenoid experiment simulations

  • VatanparvaR
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Graduate Conditions for thermal neutron induced fission

  • dtsormpa
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Graduate Can There Be a Fourth Generation of Charged Leptons in the Standard Model?

  • wedge
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Graduate Neutrino Oscillations: Massiveness & Non-Oscillation of Electrons, Muons & Taus

  • touqra
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Undergrad Is Everything in the Universe Made from Hydrogen Atoms?

  • Potaire
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Graduate Slow neutron beam deflection by a magnetic field

  • dtsormpa
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Undergrad Why Does Fusion Release Energy?

  • Potaire
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Graduate Half Life of Radioactive Isotopes

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Graduate What Determines the Upper Energy Limit of Gamma Rays?

  • dtsormpa
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Undergrad How Does the Weak Force Compare to Gravity in Strength?

  • captain
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Graduate Do Electron-Positron Scattering Cross Sections Always Increase with Energy?

  • touqra
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Graduate Existence of virtual particles

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High School Atomic BOMB but not RADIOACTIVE

  • orgthingy
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Graduate Moon and GUT scale coincidences

  • arivero
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Graduate The Irony of the Higgs Mechanism: Giving Mass to the Massless?

  • touqra
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Graduate Symmetry and shape of elementary particles

  • pangsiukwong
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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

  • RJ Emery
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Graduate Understanding the Higgs Mechanism

  • touqra
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Graduate Energy Distribution of Particles in a Liquid

  • Ahmes
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Graduate Understanding Percolation Threshold and Periodic Boundary in Particle Systems

  • uiulic
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Graduate Where can I find scintillation properties for xenon gas?

  • ultimateguy
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Undergrad Can LINAC and Neutrons Be Used for Cancer Treatment?

  • badgers
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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?

  • joechien0218
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Graduate Massless photons is a hard concept to grasp

  • Benzoate
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Graduate Neutral Current - Neutrons and Neutrinos

  • Ahmes
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Graduate Isospin vs. flavor vs. spin - Difference and similarity?

  • joechien0218
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Graduate Can a Laser Be Amplified by Plasma?

  • Chronothread
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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

  • ultimateguy
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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

  • PhysiSmo
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Graduate Double Beta Decay: Questions from a Newbie

  • seerongo
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Graduate QED Calculations: Progress Made in Last 25-30 Years

  • ObsessiveMathsFreak
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Graduate MCNP4C: efficiency calculation

  • lingleo
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Graduate Difference between pseudorapidity and rapidity

  • indigojoker
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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?

  • touqra
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Graduate Rho-meson mass due to angular momentum?

  • da_willem
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Graduate How do I calculate the beam energy for fixed target experiments?

  • colin.mcenroe
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Graduate How do quark forces change with distance and attraction?

  • Xile
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Graduate Understanding Isospin in Neutron/Proton System: T & T3

  • malawi_glenn
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LHC Magnet Test Failure: Latest Updates and Delay Information

  • MelissaSweet
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Graduate Composition of Neutral Pion: uubar, ddbar, or Linear Combination?

  • indigojoker
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High School Confused about antimatter and matter

  • Pakbabydoll
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Undergrad Is Caos Theory Helpful in Studying Nuclear Physics?

  • malawi_glenn
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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?

  • say_physics04
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Undergrad Neucleons: proton and neucleus

  • minijumbuk
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Undergrad What role does the neutrino play?

  • stochastic
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Graduate Where Can I Find Resources for Cross Sections and Decay Rates?

  • luxio
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Graduate What Is the W Boson and Its Role in Beta Decay?

  • stochastic
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Graduate What causes a quark to change its flavor?

  • stochastic
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Graduate Background Info on Breit-Wigner Formula for Cross Section Interaction

  • Peter Woolley
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Graduate Unexplained energy in nuclear process

  • LHarriger
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Graduate What Is the Accepted Structure of Protons and Neutrons in an Atom's Nucleus?

  • jal
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Graduate Pauli Exclusion Principle-question

  • Rade
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Graduate Can Binding Energy Be Removed to Separate Quarks?

  • losang
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Graduate Mystery of the 'Missing' Solar Neutrinos Solved

  • Bret Danfoss
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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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