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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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High School Can virtual particles have an imaginary mass?

Jul 13, 2019 · Replies 6 · Jul 13, 2019

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Undergrad Is a neutron a separate particle or compound?

May 11, 2019 · Replies 21 · Jul 12, 2019

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Undergrad Particle Accelerator with the Earth's diameter

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Undergrad How Is Particle Distribution in a Solid Angle Derived in Mechanics?

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Undergrad Mass for solving the nuclear energy level

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Graduate (Plasma Physics) Spatial uniformity of particle species

Jun 29, 2019 · Replies 4 · Jul 7, 2019

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Undergrad What is the origin of the non-existence of right handed chiral neutrinos?

Jul 6, 2019 · Replies 13 · Jul 7, 2019

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Undergrad Confused about virtual particles

Jul 6, 2019 · Replies 4 · Jul 6, 2019

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High School Can Gluon Interactions Lead to Matter Creation Through Orbital Dynamics?

Jun 24, 2019 · Replies 10 · Jul 1, 2019

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High School How Does Quantum Turbulence Affect Plasma in a Tokamak?

Jun 29, 2019 · Replies 2 · Jun 30, 2019

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Undergrad What fundamental physics insights can we gain from nuclear physics research?

Jun 15, 2019 · Replies 11 · Jun 24, 2019

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Undergrad How to measure ion energy in a plasma?

Jun 23, 2019 · Replies 5 · Jun 24, 2019

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Undergrad Forbidden decays and conservation laws

Jun 15, 2019 · Replies 10 · Jun 20, 2019

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Graduate CGS units confusions in plasma physics journal papers

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Undergrad What exactly is the amplitude of an interaction?

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Undergrad Why are 'virtual particles' allowed to be 'off-shell'?

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Undergrad Observation of CP Violation in Charm Decays

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Undergrad Understanding the W Decay Branching Ratio to Quarks & Gluons

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Undergrad Calculate the number of states for a particle in a box

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Graduate Verifications of running charge / running mass

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Undergrad Angular momentum of an Odd-Odd nucleus (in its ground state)

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High School Antimatter in relativistic jets

May 28, 2019 · Replies 5 · Jun 5, 2019

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Undergrad Lagrangian for a free particle

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High School Tau catalyzed super heavy elements

May 31, 2019 · Replies 5 · Jun 1, 2019

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Undergrad What are scalar-isoscalar channels?

May 30, 2019 · Replies 1 · May 31, 2019

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High School Released energy by fusion reaction

May 31, 2019 · Replies 1 · May 31, 2019

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High School Why are there only two types of electric charge?

May 27, 2019 · Replies 7 · May 30, 2019

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High School Are massless particles truly massless?

May 19, 2019 · Replies 6 · May 27, 2019

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High School My particle simulation version of the Double Slit experiment

May 26, 2019 · Replies 13 · May 26, 2019

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Undergrad Binding energy, fusion and fission

May 13, 2019 · Replies 3 · May 22, 2019

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Undergrad Energy Levels: Why Do Spacings Get Smaller as Excitation Increases?

May 19, 2019 · Replies 7 · May 21, 2019

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Undergrad Why is there a limit to the number of neutrons in a nucleus?

May 18, 2019 · Replies 4 · May 20, 2019

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Graduate Why does the effectiveness of low-Z shielding increase with photon energy?

May 12, 2019 · Replies 4 · May 19, 2019

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Undergrad How does high level radiation affect lead acid batteries?

May 15, 2019 · Replies 7 · May 18, 2019

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High School Quark Gluon Plasma In the Presence of Charged Leptons?

Mar 20, 2019 · Replies 4 · May 13, 2019

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Pair Production in static fields

Jul 1, 2012 · Replies 1 · May 11, 2019

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Pion Two Body Decay Simulation: Efficiency and Impurity Analysis

Mar 20, 2011 · Replies 1 · May 11, 2019

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Ladder operators in electron field and electron's charge

Jan 8, 2017 · Replies 1 · May 11, 2019

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Can Multi-Layered Buckyonions Enhance Beta-Decay Rates?

Apr 2, 2008 · Replies 1 · May 11, 2019

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Undergrad The fate of neutron rich nuclei

May 7, 2019 · Replies 5 · May 10, 2019

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Undergrad Explicit computation of mass counter term diagrams

Dec 27, 2018 · Replies 13 · May 9, 2019

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Graduate About the Bargmann-Wigner Method

Apr 30, 2019 · Replies 4 · May 5, 2019

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Undergrad Can any element be photodisintegrated

Apr 26, 2019 · Replies 7 · Apr 29, 2019

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How Does the Bethe-Bloch Formula Estimate Muon Energy Loss in NaI Scintillators?

Oct 18, 2011 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2019

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Obtaining the CDSA range of Bethe-Bloch Equation

Apr 27, 2008 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2019

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Nuclear Interactions: Inelastic and elastic scattering

Nov 12, 2007 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2019

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Questions about activation energy for fission

Mar 19, 2011 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2019

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How do I calculate the average energy of a particle leaving a nuclear reaction?

Apr 12, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2019

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How Does Classical Radiation Pressure Depend on Brightness and Frequency?

Aug 24, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 29, 2019

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Graduate Negative Hydrogen Ions in Cyclotrons and elsewhere

Apr 26, 2019 · Replies 11 · Apr 29, 2019

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Graduate Density waves in gravitationally interacting particles

Aug 30, 2016 · Replies 2 · Apr 28, 2019

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High School Can the Proton's 10e35 Pascals Outward Force Be True?

Mar 18, 2019 · Replies 9 · Apr 28, 2019

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Graduate SLC Asymmetry: Measuring A_LR with Unpolarized Beam

Apr 27, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 28, 2019

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High School Physicists spot the signatures of nuclear fusion in a table-top device

Apr 16, 2019 · Replies 6 · Apr 27, 2019

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CNO Fusion Cross-sections for proton nitrogen-15

Apr 17, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Explanation of Higgs mass exclusion graphs?

Jul 2, 2012 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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What caused the unexplained Zen events at CERN in 1985?

Jun 24, 2011 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Brian Cox video Discusses Cosmology and CERN supercollider

May 8, 2013 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Higgs mechanism and vacuum instability

Apr 4, 2013 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Electron anomalous magnetic moment

Jan 20, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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MOOC on The Discovery of the Higgs Boson

Oct 23, 2013 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Potential Impacts of Hydron Collider: Examined?

Dec 6, 2009 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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How Do Box Diagrams Affect B-Bbar Mixing in the Standard Model?

Mar 15, 2013 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Deflecting high energy proton beam

Jan 9, 2012 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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19 March LHC gets 3.5 TeV in both beams, a first.

Mar 19, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Neutrino Detection: Uncovering Deuterium and Oxygen Reactions

Feb 27, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Typical cross sections for ee-uu scattering

Mar 27, 2012 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Neutron Time of Flight Jacobian

Mar 21, 2012 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Mass-Energy Conversion in Bound Systems

Jan 16, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Help with population of various isotopes in decay chains (Bateman equations)

Nov 30, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 26, 2019

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Question about Plasma Windows & Interaction with Magnetic Fields

Feb 27, 2007 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment

Jun 12, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Electroweak symmetry breaking without Higgs boson?

Dec 30, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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When two deuterium nuclei are shot at each other they have some

Jan 14, 2012 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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LHC to skip low-energy test runs

Jun 6, 2007 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Plotting a Kurie Plot with a PHA

Mar 12, 2012 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Stellar nuclear fusion: Mean cross section and velocity theorem

Jul 14, 2011 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Coincidence summing in gamma ray spectrometry

Aug 7, 2008 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Is Energy of Gauge Bosons matched by Binding Energy?

Oct 8, 2006 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Particle collider imaging process

Jan 23, 2014 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Can Gamma Radiation Penetrate a Geiger Counter from Any Direction?

May 13, 2008 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Can anyone explain nuclear recoil..

Apr 9, 2007 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Neutron-Neutrino collisions and the W bosons

Jan 12, 2010 · Replies 1 · Apr 25, 2019

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Graduate How wise/unwise would it be to attempt to create a strangelet?

Apr 14, 2019 · Replies 9 · Apr 25, 2019

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Undergrad Parallel plate particle acceleraton questions

Apr 22, 2019 · Replies 14 · Apr 25, 2019

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Undergrad Xenon 124 -- How did they calculate the half life? (trillions of years)

Apr 25, 2019 · Replies 9 · Apr 25, 2019

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Graduate What procedure do scientists use to get time on a collider/particle accelerator?

Apr 18, 2019 · Replies 4 · Apr 24, 2019

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High School Energy conservation in nuclear fission

Apr 22, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 22, 2019

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Undergrad Proton momentum distribution inside deuterium

Apr 13, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 14, 2019

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High School Practical Antimatter Production

Apr 10, 2019 · Replies 16 · Apr 14, 2019

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Initial states ppbar can proceed to npi^0 with parity conserved

Mar 30, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 14, 2019

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Graduate Helicity and electron/positron annihilation

Apr 13, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 13, 2019

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Undergrad Understanding Spinor's Helicity

Apr 8, 2019 · Replies 3 · Apr 13, 2019

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Undergrad Can Particles Defy Time by Reaching Below Absolute Zero?

Apr 10, 2019 · Replies 4 · Apr 10, 2019

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Undergrad The Confinement Radius of a Cosmic Ray (Galactic vs. Extra-galactic)

Apr 8, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 9, 2019

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Graduate Classical particle in a 2D box

Apr 9, 2019 · Replies 4 · Apr 9, 2019

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Graduate Phasing 2 Electrons' Wavefunctions

Apr 4, 2019 · Replies 13 · Apr 8, 2019

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Undergrad Confused about particle interactions

Apr 7, 2019 · Replies 2 · Apr 7, 2019

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Undergrad Antimatter atoms vs atoms with greater mass?

Apr 6, 2019 · Replies 2 · Apr 7, 2019

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Undergrad Myers mass formula to find the valley of stability for A=56

Apr 3, 2019 · Replies 1 · Apr 7, 2019

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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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