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Graduate What Does 'Per MeV' Mean in Muon Energy Loss Calculations?
- stakhanov
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Graduate How do one describe particles with chirality?
- iamquantized
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Undergrad 4th year nuclear and particle physics thesis topic ideas
- 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 What happens when a neutron collides with an atom if it has no charge?
- Morga
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Graduate Interesting new model(s) on the hierarchy problem
- Haelfix
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Graduate Why isn't the Higgs mechanism considered a force if the Higgs is a boson?
- 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
- Longrange
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Graduate Can we harness the power of atoms for energy through fission or fusion?
- bassplayer142
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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 Feynmf package not displaying diagrams on Mac OS X
- hayreter
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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 How can three quarks with I=1/2 combine to give nucleon isospin I=1/2?
- neelakash
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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?
- K.J.Healey
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High School If Neutron and Proton have some diff. mass then why?
- rivalslayer
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Undergrad What gives electrons and protons their electric charge?
- 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 Integrating the Gaisser muon flux parametrization over energy
- stakhanov
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High School What Are Resonances in Physics?
- captain
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Graduate What would be the expected characteristic properties of magnetic monopoles?
- 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 Why do neutrinos oscillate but electrons, muons and taus don't?
- 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
- daveb
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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
- emanaly
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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?
- Hymne
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Graduate Vacuum in Quantum Field theory is not empty
- emanaly
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Undergrad Could the Large Hadron Collider create dangerous black holes?
- lufbrajames
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Graduate Converting Plutonium: Nuclear Reactions for Harmlessness
- RJ Emery
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Graduate Why does gauge boson mass depend on the expansion point in 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
- Homo sapiens sapiens
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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
- arivero
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High School Half Lifes and Critical Conditions
- s.p.q.r
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Graduate Creating Electrons via Compton Scattering
- ultimateguy
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Unparticle Physics?
- humanino
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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
- colin.mcenroe
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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 Why do two protons have T = 1 but two neutrons also T = 1 in isospin?
- malawi_glenn
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LHC Magnet Test Failure: Latest Updates and Delay Information
- MelissaSweet
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Graduate Is the neutral pion made of uubar, ddbar, or both?
- indigojoker
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High School Properties of matter and antimatter particle pairs
- Pakbabydoll
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Undergrad Is chaos theory useful in nuclear physics?
- malawi_glenn
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Particle cartoons by Roz Chast in Symmetry mag
- marcus
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Undergrad What is the typical nuclear density in g/cm³ and nucleons/fm³?
- saleem
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Graduate Radioactive Decay chain and Masses of Products
- lapo3399
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Graduate Spontaneous fission condition of the nucleus
- TheDestroyer
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Graduate Conformal Groups: Lie Algebra of Generators
- chronnox
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Graduate Can the Sun Power a New Generation of Lasers?
- Ruslan_Sharipov
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High School Hydrogen when its electron is removed
- stochastic
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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 Missing energy in 1954 nuclear reactors denoted by ζ
- 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 How do solar electron neutrinos convert to muon and tau neutrinos?
- Bret Danfoss
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Graduate Counting Gluons: The Role of Gluons in Binding Quarks in a Proton
- stochastic
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