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Join expert discussion on High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics. Properties, relationships, and interactions of subatomic particles. Experimental and theoretical physics of nuclei and elementary particles.

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Graduate Electron-positron lattice model

Aug 30, 2005 · Replies 8 · May 3, 2006

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

Apr 21, 2006 · Replies 4 · May 2, 2006

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Graduate Question: What is Virtuality for a Virtual Photon?

Apr 23, 2006 · Replies 3 · May 2, 2006

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Graduate Does the nucleon-nucleon interaction depend on momentum?

Apr 27, 2006 · Replies 4 · May 1, 2006

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

Apr 27, 2006 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2006

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Graduate Detection of Elementary Particles

Apr 25, 2006 · Replies 5 · Apr 27, 2006

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Graduate Absence of gravity at atomic level at all?

Apr 21, 2006 · Replies 7 · Apr 26, 2006

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

Apr 14, 2006 · Replies 13 · Apr 25, 2006

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Graduate Exclusion plots and cross-section?

Apr 20, 2006 · Replies 6 · Apr 22, 2006

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High School Why fundamental forces change their strength?

Apr 21, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 22, 2006

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Graduate Is an accelerator the same thing as a collider?

Apr 19, 2006 · Replies 11 · Apr 21, 2006

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Undergrad Does it take work to hold an atom together?

Apr 18, 2006 · Replies 8 · Apr 20, 2006

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Undergrad Strong nuclear force vs. electromagnetism

Apr 16, 2006 · Replies 4 · Apr 20, 2006

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

Apr 19, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 19, 2006

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Graduate Is the Standard Model overly speculative ?

Apr 17, 2006 · Replies 7 · Apr 19, 2006

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Graduate Understand Nuclear Scattering - Can Anyone Explain?

Apr 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 18, 2006

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

Apr 18, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 18, 2006

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Undergrad Nuclear fusion and binding energy

Apr 17, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 18, 2006

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Undergrad Why is U235 used for chain reaction but not U238

Mar 24, 2006 · Replies 19 · Apr 16, 2006

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Graduate Strong interaction in hadronic hydrogen atoms

Mar 21, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 9, 2006

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Graduate Understanding the Violation of Parity in Weak Interactions

Mar 30, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 8, 2006

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Graduate Massive and massless quark renormalization in QCD

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 8, 2006

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Graduate Plasma Physics: A Comprehensive Introduction

Mar 4, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 7, 2006

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Graduate Chances of Strangelet Forming?

Mar 31, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 7, 2006

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Graduate Can Higher Energy Photons Create Heavier Particle Pairs?

Feb 18, 2006 · Replies 21 · Apr 4, 2006

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

Apr 3, 2006 · Replies 7 · Apr 4, 2006

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

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 2 · Apr 3, 2006

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

Apr 1, 2006 · Replies 5 · Apr 3, 2006

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High School A plasma is typically an ionized gas

Apr 2, 2006 · Replies 3 · Apr 2, 2006

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

Mar 29, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 29, 2006

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Undergrad The fundemental forces: four or three?

Mar 27, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 27, 2006

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Graduate Explaining How Particles Carry Forces

Mar 20, 2006 · Replies 12 · Mar 27, 2006

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Graduate Graviton Properties, best guesses?

Mar 19, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 24, 2006

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Graduate Can someone please explain the cp variation?

Mar 23, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 23, 2006

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Undergrad Both the object and the particles can move?

Mar 23, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 23, 2006

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

Mar 22, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 23, 2006

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

Mar 19, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 21, 2006

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Graduate Triton Nucleus & C14: Radiogenic Properties & Instability

Mar 18, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 18, 2006

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Graduate On the Dirac equation in a gravitation field

Mar 16, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 16, 2006

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Undergrad Understanding the Interactions of Gamma Rays with Matter

Mar 13, 2006 · Replies 6 · Mar 16, 2006

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

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 4 · Mar 14, 2006

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Undergrad Is a Ring Accelerator the Same as a Cyclotron?

Mar 14, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 14, 2006

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Graduate Information on a fission reaction

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 13, 2006

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Graduate Charge Conservation in Neutron Decay

Mar 12, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 13, 2006

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Undergrad Why do gases absorb neutrons less readily than water?

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 10, 2006

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Graduate Bubble fusion claim by Taleyarkhan is under question.

Mar 9, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 9, 2006

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Graduate Are neutrinos an example of quantum tunneling?

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Mar 8, 2006

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Graduate Do elementary particles have attributes?

Mar 4, 2006 · Replies 4 · Mar 8, 2006

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Graduate Nuclear Power, a few questions

Mar 7, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 8, 2006

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

Mar 8, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 8, 2006

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Graduate Why Does the Neutron Have a Long Lifetime?

Mar 5, 2006 · Replies 16 · Mar 8, 2006

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Undergrad What Are the Potential Applications of Nuclear Fusion?

Mar 5, 2006 · Replies 7 · Mar 8, 2006

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Graduate What is forward-backward assymetry, charge assymetry?

Mar 7, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 7, 2006

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Graduate Investigating Superconducting Relativistic Vacuum - Reilly Atkinson

Feb 27, 2006 · Replies 8 · Mar 6, 2006

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Undergrad Is Cold Fusion a Reliable Energy Source?

Jan 18, 2006 · Replies 6 · Mar 4, 2006

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

Feb 27, 2006 · Replies 12 · Mar 4, 2006

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Graduate How are elementary particles born?

Feb 18, 2006 · Replies 4 · Mar 2, 2006

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Graduate Why Are Photons Emitted in Neutral Particle Annihilations?

Mar 2, 2006 · Replies 2 · Mar 2, 2006

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Graduate Particles like neutrino have zero mass and zero charge

Sep 14, 2005 · Replies 15 · Mar 2, 2006

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Graduate Packing Fraction of H Mass 2: 2.01402u

Feb 28, 2006 · Replies 3 · Mar 1, 2006

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Graduate SU(3) Decomposition of Antiquark - Antiquark

Feb 24, 2006 · Replies 9 · Mar 1, 2006

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

Feb 26, 2006 · Replies 5 · Feb 28, 2006

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Graduate Infrared Unification: Quarks and Electrons Attract Equal Force

Feb 25, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 27, 2006

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

Feb 24, 2006 · Replies 3 · Feb 24, 2006

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Graduate Standard Model help requested .

Feb 22, 2006 · Replies 6 · Feb 24, 2006

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Graduate From Atoms to Quarks and Beyond: A historical panorama

Feb 21, 2006 · Replies 4 · Feb 23, 2006

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Graduate Attractive Forces: Understanding Particle Exchange

Feb 22, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 23, 2006

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Undergrad Understanding Decay Chains in Nuclear Physics | U238 Example Explained

Feb 21, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 23, 2006

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

Feb 18, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 22, 2006

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

Feb 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 17, 2006

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Graduate What about U-236 makes it unstable?

Feb 15, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 15, 2006

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

Feb 6, 2006 · Replies 3 · Feb 12, 2006

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

Feb 6, 2006 · Replies 9 · Feb 11, 2006

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Graduate Massless Charged Particles: Fact or Fiction?

Jan 22, 2006 · Replies 13 · Feb 10, 2006

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Graduate Box containing particles and be left alone

Feb 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 9, 2006

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Graduate Raw data for neutrino oscillations

Feb 3, 2006 · Replies 2 · Feb 6, 2006

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Graduate Quark Confinement Period, a Question.

Feb 3, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 6, 2006

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Graduate How many mesons have been discovered?

Feb 1, 2006 · Replies 4 · Feb 3, 2006

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

Feb 1, 2006 · Replies 5 · Feb 3, 2006

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

Jan 31, 2006 · Replies 1 · Feb 1, 2006

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

Jan 25, 2006 · Replies 4 · Jan 30, 2006

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Graduate Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity

Jan 30, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 30, 2006

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Undergrad Two Protons Colliding- Stable Nuclei?

Jan 28, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 28, 2006

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Graduate Deuterium as opposed to di-proton

Jan 24, 2006 · Replies 5 · Jan 27, 2006

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Graduate Which Came First the Particle or the Field?

Jan 3, 2006 · Replies 12 · Jan 25, 2006

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

Dec 18, 2005 · Replies 9 · Jan 25, 2006

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Graduate The Power of Idle Home PCs: Lattice QCD Project

Jan 22, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 23, 2006

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Graduate Electron Light Absorption in a Hard Vacuum Diode

Jan 19, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jan 20, 2006

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

Jan 12, 2006 · Replies 1 · Jan 17, 2006

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Graduate What are the factors that determine the different lifetimes of particle decays?

Jan 13, 2006 · Replies 3 · Jan 17, 2006

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Graduate Are there Rules for Quark Interactions and Particle Formation?

Jan 17, 2006 · Replies 2 · Jan 17, 2006

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Graduate Is There a Fourth Fundamental Force Discovered in 1986?

Dec 9, 2005 · Replies 9 · Jan 13, 2006

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Undergrad Half Life of Radioactive Element: Alpha, Beta & Gamma Radiation

Jan 9, 2006 · Replies 10 · Jan 12, 2006

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Undergrad Unravelling the Mysteries of Radioactive Decay

Jan 7, 2006 · Replies 6 · Jan 9, 2006

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Undergrad Particle Spin Explained: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Spin Phenomenon

Dec 21, 2005 · Replies 11 · Jan 6, 2006

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Graduate How Does the 3rd Neutron Form in a Nuclear Fusion Reaction?

Jan 5, 2006 · Replies 8 · Jan 5, 2006

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Graduate Searching for the Higgs Field: 95% Confidence of Existence

Dec 15, 2005 · Replies 33 · Jan 3, 2006

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Graduate Symmetry the new Ptolemaic Theory?

Dec 3, 2005 · Replies 35 · Jan 3, 2006

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Graduate Forces are actually involved in radioactivity

Dec 22, 2005 · Replies 23 · Jan 2, 2006

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Undergrad What Is a Quark? Proton Composition & Size

Oct 11, 2005 · Replies 5 · Dec 31, 2005

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Particle Physics

Welcome to the Particle Physics forum!

Particle physics is a branch of physics that explores the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting upon them at the smallest scales. It involves the study of subatomic particles, such as quarks, leptons, and bosons, and their interactions.

Particle accelerators and detectors are crucial tools in this field, allowing scientists to probe the properties of particles by colliding them at high energies. The Standard Model of particle physics encapsulates our current understanding of these elementary particles and their interactions, but researchers continually seek to expand this framework and explore phenomena such as dark matter and dark energy.

Particle physics plays a central role in unraveling the fundamental nature of the universe, helping us comprehend the building blocks that form all matter and the forces governing their behavior.

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