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Graduate Is it possible to remotely detect a nuclear weapon?

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High School Decoding Anti-Matter: Understanding its Formation and Properties

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Graduate Neutrino-antineutrino annihilation

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Particles Making Path in Smoke Chamber

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Graduate Why Does 238U Not Spontaneously Decay by Proton Emission

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Graduate Understanding Matter: Quark Transfer and Neutrino Differences

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High School U235 Natural Decay: Find Diagrams & Detailed Info

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Undergrad Physics about particles behave (dust simulator)

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Graduate How Do You Calculate Compton Scattering and Pair Production Cross-Sections?

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Graduate What Explains the Peculiarity of Quark Masses?

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Graduate Neutron decay products: n → p + e + ν + DC-photon?

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Graduate Electron-positron lattice model

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Graduate Lack of understanding of energy, quarks, and the strong force

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Graduate Question: What is Virtuality for a Virtual Photon?

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Graduate Does the nucleon-nucleon interaction depend on momentum?

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Undergrad What Is Produced When Nickel-60 Captures a Neutron?

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Graduate Detection of Elementary Particles

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Graduate Absence of gravity at atomic level at all?

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Graduate How could 2nd and 3rd gen. quarks be possibly discovered?

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Graduate Exclusion plots and cross-section?

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High School Why fundamental forces change their strength?

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Graduate Is an accelerator the same thing as a collider?

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Undergrad Does it take work to hold an atom together?

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Undergrad Strong nuclear force vs. electromagnetism

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Graduate What Are the New Insights from Bs - Anti-Bs Mixing Measurements at Fermilab?

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Graduate Is the Standard Model overly speculative ?

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Graduate Understand Nuclear Scattering - Can Anyone Explain?

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Graduate What is the physical explanation for mass difference in nuclear reactions?

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Undergrad Nuclear fusion and binding energy

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Undergrad Why is U235 used for chain reaction but not U238

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Graduate Strong interaction in hadronic hydrogen atoms

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Graduate Understanding the Violation of Parity in Weak Interactions

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Graduate Massive and massless quark renormalization in QCD

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Graduate Plasma Physics: A Comprehensive Introduction

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Graduate Chances of Strangelet Forming?

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Graduate Can Higher Energy Photons Create Heavier Particle Pairs?

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Graduate How Do Particles and Anti-Particles Coexist Without Annihilating Each Other?

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Graduate Why Can't Photons Have a Spin of 0 Like Gravitons?

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Graduate Understanding Isotopic Spin in Standard Model Doublets: Electron or Neutrino?

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High School A plasma is typically an ionized gas

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Graduate Is the Differential Cross Section Truly a Ratio of Differentials?

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Undergrad The fundemental forces: four or three?

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Graduate Explaining How Particles Carry Forces

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Graduate Graviton Properties, best guesses?

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Graduate Can someone please explain the cp variation?

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Undergrad Both the object and the particles can move?

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Graduate Nuclear Decay: Pure Beta vs. Mixed Beta/Gamma Emitters

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Graduate Where Can I Find Detailed Equations Like Dirac's and Einstein's?

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Graduate Triton Nucleus & C14: Radiogenic Properties & Instability

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Graduate On the Dirac equation in a gravitation field

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Undergrad Understanding the Interactions of Gamma Rays with Matter

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Graduate Radioactive material (e.g. Uranium) is placed into sealed box

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Undergrad Is a Ring Accelerator the Same as a Cyclotron?

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Graduate Information on a fission reaction

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Graduate Charge Conservation in Neutron Decay

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Undergrad Why do gases absorb neutrons less readily than water?

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Graduate Bubble fusion claim by Taleyarkhan is under question.

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Graduate Are neutrinos an example of quantum tunneling?

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Graduate Do elementary particles have attributes?

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Graduate Nuclear Power, a few questions

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Undergrad Why does the strong nuclear force become repulsive at small distances?

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Graduate Why Does the Neutron Have a Long Lifetime?

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Undergrad What Are the Potential Applications of Nuclear Fusion?

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Graduate What is forward-backward assymetry, charge assymetry?

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Graduate Investigating Superconducting Relativistic Vacuum - Reilly Atkinson

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Undergrad Is Cold Fusion a Reliable Energy Source?

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Undergrad Is There a Limit to Achieving a Perfect Vacuum in Deep Space?

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Graduate How are elementary particles born?

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Graduate Why Are Photons Emitted in Neutral Particle Annihilations?

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Graduate Particles like neutrino have zero mass and zero charge

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Graduate Packing Fraction of H Mass 2: 2.01402u

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Graduate SU(3) Decomposition of Antiquark - Antiquark

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Undergrad Is the Charge of a Positron the Same as a Proton?

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Graduate Infrared Unification: Quarks and Electrons Attract Equal Force

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High School Atomic vs Nuclear Bombs: What's the Difference?

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Graduate Standard Model help requested .

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Graduate From Atoms to Quarks and Beyond: A historical panorama

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Graduate Attractive Forces: Understanding Particle Exchange

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Undergrad Understanding Decay Chains in Nuclear Physics | U238 Example Explained

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Graduate What are force carrying particles and how do they carry force without mass?

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Graduate What is the reason for the specific number of quarks in baryons and fermions?

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Graduate What about U-236 makes it unstable?

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Graduate Why is the Z vector Boson heavier then most quarks?

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Graduate Are Bosons Real and How Do They Defy the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

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Graduate Massless Charged Particles: Fact or Fiction?

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Graduate Box containing particles and be left alone

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Graduate Raw data for neutrino oscillations

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Graduate Quark Confinement Period, a Question.

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Graduate How many mesons have been discovered?

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Graduate Is the Higgs Field Essential for the Standard Model's Consistency?

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Undergrad Why electron doesn't fall into nucleon in a atom?

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Graduate Muon g-2 and the Standard Model: Updates and Questions

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Graduate Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity

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Undergrad Two Protons Colliding- Stable Nuclei?

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Graduate Deuterium as opposed to di-proton

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Graduate Which Came First the Particle or the Field?

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Graduate What is a graviton and why is it considered a boson?

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Graduate The Power of Idle Home PCs: Lattice QCD Project

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Graduate Electron Light Absorption in a Hard Vacuum Diode

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Graduate Currents & Multiplets: Understanding the Algebra of SU(N)

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