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Undergrad Can a fusion reaction propagate in a cappilary?
- Christofer Br
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Undergrad Energy momentum of massless particles
- Ranku
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High School What happens during electron capture physically?
- intothefire
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Undergrad Quark Model Families and Masses
- lelouch_v1
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Graduate Integration by parts with delta function in Klein-Gordon field derivation
- TroyElliott
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Undergrad Need a layman's explanation for how scientists contain antimatter
- Galactic explosion
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Undergrad Can Laser Pulses Produce MeV Gamma Rays?
- David lopez
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Undergrad MiniBooNE results at 6.1 sigma: Potential evidence for sterile neutrinos
- jim mcnamara
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High School The electromagnetic force of quarks
- MacGyver Megh
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Undergrad Neutrons, fusion and efficiency
- John Plant
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Undergrad Why is H burning not a B+ decay
- The forgetful one
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Undergrad Neutrons and neutron interactions
- Bashayer Abdullah
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High School Can New Protons Be Created by Accelerating Particles to High Energies?
- JT Blue
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High School Why does Nickel-62 have the highest BEPN?
- Jimmy87
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Graduate Time reversal operator unitarity in Weinberg QFT appendix C
- Antarres
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High School I've heard that particle physics is just like taxonomy and botany
- TechieDork
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Undergrad How much energy does a fission nuke actually release?
- Mohammad Hunter
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Undergrad Dark Matter Detector Observes Rarest Event Ever Recorded
- Buzz Bloom
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Graduate How does the CKM matrix phase cause CP violation?
- Utg
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Undergrad Do Massive Objects Like the Sun Deflect Neutrinos?
- HeavyWater
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Undergrad Can Majorana neutrinos explain antimatter asymmetry?
- Physics4Eva
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Graduate Converting JJ Thomson's q/m Units to Modern Standards
- adamws
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Graduate Derivation of the Yang-Mills 3 gauge boson vertex
- takunitoche
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Graduate Loop Corrections: A Layman's Explanation
- physics_domme
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Undergrad How fast are protons and electrons moving inside a star?
- PhDnotForMe
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Graduate Simplifying vertex correction algebra in Peskin & Schroeder page 191
- mdb71
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Undergrad What Natural Phenomena Resemble Nuclear Fission?
- Ranku
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Undergrad Gamma and beta radiation in accelerators?
- Baroo
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Undergrad Ionizing all electrons from atoms without excessive heat
- dsaun777
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Undergrad Scattering of a scalar particle and a Fermion
- foxdiligens
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High School Rest energies of individual nucleons considered in isolation
- etotheipi
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Graduate The time between when the neutrinos are emitted in double-beta decay?
- qnach
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Undergrad Why Does Neutron Capture Only Emit Gamma Rays and Not Charged Particles?
- SamAnotnio
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Undergrad Interaction of Neutrons with Matter
- SamAnotnio
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High School What factors contribute to an object's rest energy?
- etotheipi
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Graduate Average transverse momentum as a function of the longitudinal momentum
- Aleolomorfo
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Undergrad List of unstable and unknown hexaquarks
- snorkack
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High School Is Radioactive Decay Uncaused/Causeless?
- drkfuture
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Undergrad Fissionable elements for Fission
- fog37
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Graduate Effect of High-Energy Particles on Lead
- RJ Emery
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Undergrad Finding the 1991 Konopinski papers on atmospheric ignition
- undefined314
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Graduate Can Baryons with Positive Strangeness Exist?
- Federica
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Graduate Lepton Flavors: Beyond e-, μ-, τ-?
- Incnis Mrsi
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High School When does fusion or fission release energy?
- A M
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High School How nuclear fusion and fission differ
- A M
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High School The Strong Nuclear Force: Is my understanding correct?
- A M
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High School Mass Defect: Is my understanding correct?
- A M
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High School Nuclear Binding Energy: Is my understanding correct?
- A M
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High School Released Energy: Is my understanding correct?
- A M
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High School Coulomb Force: Is my understanding correct?
- A M
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Graduate Feynman diagrams strong process
- Aleolomorfo
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Graduate G-parity - where does the minus sign come from?
- Federica
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Graduate Interpretation of Bi-207 decay spectrum
- XLAYZ
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High School When to think of PE as property of a system vs of a particle
- etotheipi
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Undergrad Is there such a thing as a gamma particle?
- swampwiz
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High School Can U-233 be made into a bomb?
- Flexwheeler
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Graduate Why does the Wu experiment show the opposite results to my predictions?
- Federica
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High School Input Energy of Radioactive Decays
- A M
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High School Matter/antimatter hybrid atomic structures?
- atracious
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Undergrad Forbidden decay ##\rho^0\rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0##
- Aleolomorfo
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Undergrad Nuclear Fusion: Radioactive Decay?
- A M
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High School What exactly causes the Meissner effect
- TheCelt
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Undergrad How to find the most likely modes of decay for a particle
- mPlummers
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High School Neutrinos: Fast or Slow? Can We Observe It?
- planet-75
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Insights The basics of positron emission tomography
- klotza
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High School Can a Geiger counter detect radiation from K-40 decay in the human body?
- Abu
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Graduate Why is irreducibility equivalent to being gamma-traceless for spinors?
- filip97
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Graduate Is the "massless quark" hypothesis ever useful?
- dextercioby
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High School Why don't neutrinos pass through atoms?
- Chrisana
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Undergrad Muon lifetime measurement experiment
- Aleolomorfo
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Undergrad How to calibrate a NaI(Tl) scintillator?
- consuli
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High School Radioactive decay, Stability and Halflife
- A M
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Graduate (A,A) representation of Lorentz group-why is it tensor?
- filip97
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Undergrad Atomic Electron Jump Wavelengths
- philip porhammer
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Undergrad How do ion sources in cyclotrons work?
- mike_gamma
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Undergrad Field theories in 4 dimensions
- kelly0303
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Undergrad Time ordering for Dirac spinors
- kelly0303
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Graduate Pauli's spin matrices in higher order
- pallab
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Undergrad FRB's source as Rail and/or Coil Guns (or mass drivers)
- dedocta
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Undergrad Can I detect electrons using X-ray film?
- onehj832
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Graduate Can Particle Physics Revolutionize Biology?
- cordless03
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Graduate Could the Odderon intercept be ##\alpha_\mathbb {O}(0)=0.813##?
- Anashim
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Undergrad 3 facts that you might not know about antimatter
- alberto91
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Undergrad Why is a pair of an electron and a positron unstable?
- Mayan Fung
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Undergrad Why does a Lagrangian matter for the standard model?
- Daniel_C
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Undergrad Boundary terms for field operators
- kelly0303
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High School Are H+ Ions Alone Considered Acids or Plasma?
- Xforce
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Graduate Are unstable particles ever really external lines in QFT?
- bjj
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Graduate Why are higher spin tensors totally symmetric?
- filip97
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Graduate Electron Vertex Function in QED
- Jamister
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Undergrad Understanding Critical Energy and Thresholds in High Energy Physics
- MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Can virtual particles have an imaginary mass?
- Lunct
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Undergrad Is a neutron a separate particle or compound?
- Ksheva
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High School The Term "no mass" is poorly defined
- Trooper149
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Undergrad Particle Accelerator with the Earth's diameter
- lucas_
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Undergrad How Is Particle Distribution in a Solid Angle Derived in Mechanics?
- ranger281
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Undergrad Mass for solving the nuclear energy level
- just_mb
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Graduate (Plasma Physics) Spatial uniformity of particle species
- IonReactor
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Undergrad What is the origin of the non-existence of right handed chiral neutrinos?
- kelly0303
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Undergrad When is an unstable particle like the Z boson real vs virtual?
- kelly0303
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