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High School What happens during electron capture physically?
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Undergrad Quark Model Families and Masses
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Graduate Help understanding a term in the derivation of #\Pi(\vec(x),t)# for KG eq.
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Undergrad Need a layman's explanation for how scientists contain antimatter
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Undergrad Can Laser Pulses Produce MeV Gamma Rays?
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Undergrad MiniBooNE results at 6.1 sigma: Potential evidence for sterile neutrinos
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High School The electromagnetic force of quarks
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Undergrad Neutrons, fusion and efficiency
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Undergrad Why is H burning not a B+ decay
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Undergrad Neutrons and neutron interactions
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High School Can New Protons Be Created by Accelerating Particles to High Energies?
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High School Why does Nickel-62 have the highest BEPN?
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Graduate A question about time inversion [Weinberg]
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High School I've heard that particle physics is just like taxonomy and botany
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Undergrad How much energy does a fission nuke actually release?
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Undergrad Dark Matter Detector Observes Rarest Event Ever Recorded
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Graduate CP Violation & Phase: Explained
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Undergrad Do Massive Objects Like the Sun Deflect Neutrinos?
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Undergrad Unraveling Neutrino Confusion: Ettore Majorana's Theory
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Graduate Converting JJ Thomson's q/m Units to Modern Standards
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Graduate Derivation of the Yang-Mills 3 gauge boson vertex
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Graduate Loop Corrections: A Layman's Explanation
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Undergrad Proton & Electron Speed in Stars: What You Need to Know
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Graduate Smart Algebra of Exp. on Pg 191 of Peskin & Schroeder
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Undergrad What Natural Phenomena Resemble Nuclear Fission?
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Undergrad Gamma and beta radiation in accelerators?
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Undergrad Ionization -- Efficiently ionizing every electron off of atoms
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Undergrad Scattering of a scalar particle and a Fermion
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High School Rest energies of individual nucleons considered in isolation
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Graduate The time between when the neutrinos are emitted in double-beta decay?
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Undergrad Why Does Neutron Capture Only Emit Gamma Rays and Not Charged Particles?
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Undergrad Interaction of Neutrons with Matter
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High School What factors contribute to an object's rest energy?
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Graduate Average transverse momentum as a function of the longitudinal momentum
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Undergrad List of unstable and unknown hexaquarks
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High School Is Radioactive Decay Uncaused/Causeless?
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Undergrad Fissionable elements for Fission
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Graduate Effect of High-Energy Particles on Lead
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery of the 1991 Atomic Bomb Ignition Papers
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Graduate Can Baryons with Positive Strangeness Exist?
  • Federica
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Graduate Lepton Flavors: Beyond e-, μ-, τ-?
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High School Analysis of Fusion & Fission by Binding Energy
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High School Basic definition: Nuclear Fusion & Fission
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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?
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High School Released Energy: Is my understanding correct?
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High School Coulomb Force: Is my understanding correct?
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Graduate Feynman diagrams strong process
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Graduate G-parity - where does the minus sign come from?
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Graduate Interpretation of Bi-207 decay spectrum
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High School When to think of PE as property of a system vs of a particle
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Undergrad Is there such a thing as a gamma particle?
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High School Can U-233 be made into a bomb?
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Graduate Madame Wu Experiment: Doubts & Reasoning
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High School Input Energy of Radioactive Decays
  • A M
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High School Matter/antimatter hybrid atomic structures?
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Undergrad Forbidden decay ##\rho^0\rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0##
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Undergrad Nuclear Fusion: Radioactive Decay?
  • A M
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High School What exactly causes the Meissner effect
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Undergrad How to find the most likely modes of decay for a particle
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High School Neutrinos: Fast or Slow? Can We Observe It?
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Insights The Basics of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) - Comments
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High School Quick Question about emitted radiation and Geiger counter accuracy
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Graduate Why Spinors Are Irreducible if Gamma-Traceless: Explained
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Graduate Is the "massless quark" hypothesis ever useful?
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High School Why don't neutrinos pass through atoms?
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Undergrad Muon lifetime measurement experiment
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Undergrad How to calibrate a NaI(Tl) scintillator?
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High School Radioactive decay, Stability and Halflife
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Graduate (A,A) representation of Lorentz group-why is it tensor?
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Undergrad Atomic Electron Jump Wavelengths
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Undergrad How do ion sources in cyclotrons work?
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Undergrad Field theories in 4 dimensions
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Undergrad Time ordering for Dirac spinors
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Graduate Pauli's spin matrices in higher order
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Undergrad FRB's source as Rail and/or Coil Guns (or mass drivers)
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Undergrad Can I detect electrons using X-ray film?
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Graduate Can Particle Physics Revolutionize Biology?
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Graduate Could the Odderon intercept be ##\alpha_\mathbb {O}(0)=0.813##?
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Undergrad 3 facts that you might not know about antimatter
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Undergrad Why is a pair of an electron and a positron unstable?
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Undergrad Why does a Lagrangian matter for the standard model?
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Undergrad Boundary terms for field operators
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High School Are H+ Ions Alone Considered Acids or Plasma?
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Graduate Are unstable particles ever really external lines in QFT?
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Graduate Spin Matrices & Higher Spin Tensors: Find Answers Here
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Graduate Electron Vertex Function in QED
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Undergrad Understanding Critical Energy and Thresholds in High Energy Physics
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High School Can virtual particles have an imaginary mass?
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Undergrad Is a neutron a separate particle or compound?
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High School The Term "no mass" is poorly defined
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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
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Undergrad What is the origin of the non-existence of right handed chiral neutrinos?
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Undergrad Confused about virtual particles
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Undergrad What Exactly is the Anapole Moment?
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High School Can Gluon Interactions Lead to Matter Creation Through Orbital Dynamics?
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