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Graduate Cosmic Ray Flux Rates - 10^16-10^21 eV

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Undergrad What are the properties and behaviors of radioactive decay?

  • disregardthat
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Graduate MINOS experiment: results and future projects

  • arunma
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Graduate Converting 208Pb to 206Pb or 203Tl isotopes

  • Jacquesl
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High School I disagree with my biology teacher

  • Shellman035
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Undergrad Converting Mass to Light: The Possibility of Increasing Particle Energy

  • Joza
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High School How Much Energy Is Released in a Nuclear Fission Explosion of 5kg of Uranium?

  • raghavv
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High School Radioactive Decay: Proper Use and Amount of Occurrence?

  • Shellman035
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Graduate Weak interaction - half-lifetime of a decay

  • Soff
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Graduate 2.1 sigma excess in MSSM Higgs searches

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Graduate How a Lithium Atom Transforms into a Hydrogen Isotope

  • Mr_Bojingles
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Undergrad Nuclear Simulation- Beta Decay ?

  • RubberDucky
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Graduate Calculating Z0 Decay Matrix Element: Finding the Error

  • marlon1
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Graduate Manifestation of messenger particles?

  • pivoxa15
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Graduate Heisenberg energy-time relation for virtual and antiparticles

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Graduate Important experimental discoveries in high energy physics over 25 years

  • Locrian
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Undergrad What Happens If Oxygen Completely Grips Water's Electrons?

  • LurkingEyes
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Graduate What is the Dynamics Behind Protonium Formation?

  • Rade
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Graduate What is mean by an elementary particle ?

  • bchui
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Graduate Understanding Critical Mass and its Role in Nuclear Fission

  • Mr_Bojingles
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Graduate What is the significance of the pi meson in modern physics?

  • pf21avs
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Graduate What is the origin of the name Tri-Bimaximal?

  • mjsd
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High School Why are there 8 gluons instead of 9 color combinations?

  • JPC
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Graduate Why can't two identical nucleons form a bound state?

  • Worzo
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Graduate The difference of neutrino and anti-neutrino? If Majorana

  • Accidently
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Graduate Why do deuterium-deuterium fusion reactions eject protons or neutrons?

  • chemart
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Graduate Fundamental Particle: Is It Possible?

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Graduate What are doublets, singletsin SU(N)?

  • mjsd
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Graduate Wick rotation and imaginary number

  • touqra
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Graduate Free Neutrons - What interacts with them?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Problem with Feynman Rule for Vertices

  • Neitrino
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Graduate How Accurate is the Law of Nuclear Decay in Describing Radioactive Processes?

  • pivoxa15
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Graduate Could superheavy elements like unbihexium have practical applications?

  • sanman
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Graduate How does the Cerenkov effect work for neutrinos, despite them having no charge?

  • bjaw
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Graduate Question: photon analogs for strong and weak forces

  • interested_learner
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High School High energy electron scattering and proof of nucleus structure

  • insentive
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Graduate Properties of magnetic monopoles

  • Raymond31415
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Graduate Can particles be created from energy?

  • ShawnD
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Graduate What is luminosity and how does it affect particle collisions?

  • nesp
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Graduate Time for a Poll: Higgs Mass Prediction

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Undergrad Radioactive decay (may include math)

  • ShawnD
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Graduate How can Zn-64 decay back to Cu-64 after beta decay?

  • daveb
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Graduate Dependence of nuclear stability on mass number

  • dt19
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of spinor bilinear in supersymmetry

  • AlphaNumeric
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High School Absorption Coefficient of Aluminium

  • Lizze
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Graduate Is the Higgs Mechanism responsible for the water climbing up walls?

  • Hymne
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Undergrad Can two different radioactive isotopes have the same activity?

  • FlipStyle1308
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High School What Is Anti-Matter and How Does It Interact With Matter?

  • Johnson
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Graduate How can neutrinos with mass travel at light speed?

  • oferar
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Graduate Baryon Number Non-Conservation

  • 2Xtreme21
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Graduate Gone fission - where does the energy of the neutrons come from

  • Andrew Mason
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High School How Much More Energy Is in a Nuclear Reaction Compared to a Chemical Reaction?

  • Scottlow
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Graduate Problem on tritons and deuterons

  • krateesh
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Graduate Axion research by Jain and Singh in Journal of Physics G

  • SimplePie
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Graduate Is the designation as matter vs. antimatter arbitrary?

  • belliott4488
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Graduate Why does the eta prime meson have a narrow decay width?

  • BB1974
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Graduate What are the Predictions for the Higgs Mass in Different Models?

  • jgraber
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Graduate Tau-Catalyzed Fusion: Theoretical Predictions and Experimental Comparisons

  • Rade
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Graduate Mater Annihilation -matter v.s. anti-matter-

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Graduate How Do Quark Matrix Masses Relate to Einstein's E=mc^2?

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Undergrad Generation of gold, silver, copper elements

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Graduate A model behind the Standard Model?

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Graduate Deuterium-tritium fusion with antimatter instead of normal matter

  • cvcdrk
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Graduate Deriving Feynman rules from Lagrangian

  • AlphaNumeric
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That guy who made his own reactor

  • bill nye scienceguy!
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Graduate Clustering Phenomena In Nuclear Systems

  • Rade
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Graduate Ed Witten's Publications Before 1980

  • arivero
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Graduate Scalar diquarks with family symmetry instead of flavor

  • arivero
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Graduate Problem with a uuu particle with spin 1/2?

  • ted
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High School Explaining nuclear fusion to intro chemistry students

  • Agnostic
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Graduate Electrons near speed of light in space

  • fcpeace17
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Graduate Why Does the Top Quark, a Particle of Pure Mass, Decay?

  • bananan
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Undergrad Photodetection Efficiency (pde)

  • michealsmith
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Undergrad Why are gamma rays easily detected while neutrinos are difficult to detect?

  • taylaron
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Graduate Heating Oxygen to Form Plasma: Is It Possible?

  • Z_E_U_S_@hotmail.com
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Graduate Does Negative Mass Exist in the Universe?

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Graduate The role of exotic resonances in the early universe

  • Loren Booda
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High School Neutrinos: Partner of electrons?

  • Swapnil
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Undergrad Tracing the Roots of Nuclear Physics: Experiments by Early Pioneers

  • Azael
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Graduate Higher-order weak interaction decays

  • MaximumTaco
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Undergrad What Is the Modern Classification of Matter Fission?

  • Trek
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Graduate Two new heavy baryons discovered at CERN

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Graduate Electron emmission from orbitals

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Undergrad Worlds largest particle accelerator

  • taylaron
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Graduate Singularity and movement question

  • Writersblock
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Graduate What could be causing my cloud chamber experiment to fail?

  • whitay
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Undergrad Revolutionizing Nuclear Energy: A Simple Solution?

  • taylaron
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Graduate Do Massless Particles Feel Forces Beyond Gravity?

  • lark
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High School How is antimatter formed and what happens when it contacts matter?

  • Alpha[X]²
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Graduate Understanding Massless Quarks in QCD and the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model

  • StatMechGuy
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Undergrad High energy electron scattering

  • the Physic freak
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Graduate Matter/energy in 'empty' space

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Graduate How do you get Plutonium from Uranium?

  • marcusl
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Graduate Lykken's paper on alchemy and astrology in the Standard Model

  • selfAdjoint
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Graduate Strings as preons: does string theory allow muons to decay directly into e- + y

  • bananan
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Graduate If preons are real, and make up the SM, and SUSY is real and unbroken

  • bananan
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Undergrad Beta Decay: Puzzling Creation of Antimatter

  • pibomb
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Graduate Experimental evidence of higher dimensions. What will they be?

  • yoda9999
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Undergrad What determines beta-plus vs beta-minus decay?

  • 3trQN
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Graduate Lamb and Retherford's 1946 hydrogen spectrum experiment equipment

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