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Undergrad Can a fusion reaction propagate in a cappilary?

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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

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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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