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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 How Can Energy Be Unlocked from an Ordinary Pen Using E=mc^2?

Dec 27, 2005 · Replies 19 · Dec 31, 2005

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High School Understanding Fusion and Fission: Differences, Uses, and Impact

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Graduate Can a Functional Equation Solve the Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity?

Dec 25, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 26, 2005

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Undergrad What is the maximum energy density of photons in one cubic meter?

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Graduate Is an electron the true anti-particle of a proton?

Nov 18, 2005 · Replies 22 · Dec 23, 2005

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Graduate Energy from proton and antiproton

Dec 20, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 22, 2005

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Graduate These quarks just don't add up.

Dec 17, 2005 · Replies 13 · Dec 21, 2005

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Undergrad The constituents of a neutron?

Dec 20, 2005 · Replies 4 · Dec 21, 2005

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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Neutrinos: Spin, Mass, and Their Role in Dark Matter

Dec 19, 2005 · Replies 4 · Dec 21, 2005

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Undergrad Attraction between two Hydrogen Atoms

Dec 12, 2005 · Replies 6 · Dec 20, 2005

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Graduate Do Gravitons Exist? | Physics Forums

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Graduate Do Accelerating Masses Produce Gravitons and Cause Orbit Decay?

Dec 18, 2005 · Replies 3 · Dec 19, 2005

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Graduate Heard from a particle physics lecture

Dec 14, 2005 · Replies 10 · Dec 19, 2005

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Graduate Pions and Quarks: The Mystery of the Neutral Pion

Dec 15, 2005 · Replies 8 · Dec 19, 2005

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Graduate Pair Production from Gamma Rays

Dec 16, 2005 · Replies 5 · Dec 19, 2005

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Graduate Cobalt 60 and parity violation

Dec 18, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 18, 2005

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Undergrad Things that's accepted but has not been prooved yet

Nov 18, 2005 · Replies 22 · Dec 14, 2005

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Graduate The Electron - Size of Magnetic field vs Size of Electric field

Dec 13, 2005 · Replies 5 · Dec 13, 2005

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Graduate Beta Decay Queries: Answers & Explanations

Dec 9, 2005 · Replies 19 · Dec 12, 2005

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High School Help with vacuums and particles

Dec 10, 2005 · Replies 5 · Dec 12, 2005

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Graduate Quark composition of nucleons : dimensionality ?

Dec 8, 2005 · Replies 4 · Dec 11, 2005

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Graduate Congrats Alejandro (hep-ph posting)

Nov 14, 2005 · Replies 6 · Dec 9, 2005

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High School Just wondering, why are some atoms radioactive and others not?

Oct 21, 2005 · Replies 6 · Dec 9, 2005

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High School Can the nucleus of an atom have an overall “neutral charge”

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Graduate Strange way of visualising particle interactions

Dec 7, 2005 · Replies 1 · Dec 8, 2005

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Undergrad Why is the Anode at the Center of a GM Tube?

Dec 3, 2005 · Replies 2 · Dec 5, 2005

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Graduate Is the Electromagnetic Interaction Affected by Photon Position During Lifetime?

Oct 15, 2005 · Replies 14 · Dec 2, 2005

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Graduate A Geometric Approach to the Standard Model, Greg Trayling

Nov 30, 2005 · Replies 0 · Nov 30, 2005

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Graduate Neutron-Electron and Neutron-Positron Interactions: Is There a Difference?

Nov 28, 2005 · Replies 4 · Nov 29, 2005

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Graduate Particle Accelerators and a 22 caliber bullet.

Nov 24, 2005 · Replies 10 · Nov 27, 2005

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Graduate Do vacuum fluctuations contribute to vacuum polarization

Nov 20, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 20, 2005

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Graduate Can Baez's new paper explain SM gauge in higher dimensions?

Nov 16, 2005 · Replies 7 · Nov 18, 2005

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Graduate Do colliders observe mass first-hand?

Nov 10, 2005 · Replies 6 · Nov 16, 2005

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Graduate Does Weak Nuclear Force Run Radiation?

Nov 16, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 16, 2005

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Graduate Is Anti-Fusion a Viable Concept in Physics?

Oct 20, 2004 · Replies 11 · Nov 15, 2005

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Graduate Significance of isospin and hypercharge

Oct 1, 2005 · Replies 11 · Nov 14, 2005

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Graduate Learn QCD & QED: What you need know

Nov 4, 2005 · Replies 9 · Nov 12, 2005

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Graduate A Bose-Einstein condensate of alpha particles

Nov 8, 2005 · Replies 23 · Nov 12, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Particle Spin and Dimensional Restrictions

Nov 3, 2005 · Replies 6 · Nov 9, 2005

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Undergrad Why not more fusion with a net release of energy?

Nov 7, 2005 · Replies 5 · Nov 7, 2005

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Graduate Need Assistance with "QCD and Resonance Physics"

Oct 31, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 4, 2005

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Graduate Could Dark Matter Influence Nucleus Decay Beyond Spontaneity?

Nov 2, 2005 · Replies 2 · Nov 2, 2005

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Graduate Hadley article on parity: physics/0406118

Oct 2, 2005 · Replies 7 · Nov 2, 2005

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Undergrad Nuclear reaction energy transfer

Oct 31, 2005 · Replies 1 · Nov 1, 2005

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High School Wilson Cloud Chamber: Radiation Detection & Build Tips

Oct 31, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 31, 2005

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Graduate Is the Concept of a Positron Traveling Backwards in Time Still Accepted in QED?

Oct 29, 2005 · Replies 6 · Oct 31, 2005

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Graduate Pseudo Real Group if anomaly free

Oct 25, 2005 · Replies 4 · Oct 30, 2005

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View From Electron: What Would You See?

Oct 24, 2005 · Replies 25 · Oct 30, 2005

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Undergrad Radio activity lab suggestions

Oct 27, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 30, 2005

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Undergrad Experimental methods for measuring the size of nuclei

Oct 23, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 30, 2005

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Graduate Managing Nuclear Waste: Solutions and Potential Risks in Fusion Power Plants

Oct 29, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 29, 2005

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Graduate What Triggers Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the Standard Model?

Oct 2, 2005 · Replies 4 · Oct 28, 2005

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Graduate Are gravitons virtual or real.

Oct 26, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 27, 2005

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Undergrad Was Millikan's Oildrop Experiment Ethically Sound?

Oct 26, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 26, 2005

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Graduate Anomaly Cancellation for GUTS: Beginner's Questions

Oct 22, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 25, 2005

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Graduate Quantum Mechanics: Neutron/Proton Exchange?

Oct 23, 2005 · Replies 3 · Oct 24, 2005

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Graduate What is Planck time, Planck length, Planck particle

Oct 24, 2005 · Replies 5 · Oct 24, 2005

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PANIC 05: Attendees Going to Particles And Nuclei Conf. in Santa Fe NM

Sep 26, 2005 · Replies 8 · Oct 23, 2005

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Graduate Dual Representation and anti-particles

Sep 19, 2005 · Replies 11 · Oct 23, 2005

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Graduate What Defines Local vs Non-Local Interactions in Quantum Entanglement?

Sep 24, 2005 · Replies 28 · Oct 23, 2005

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Graduate Accelerating neutrons, production of ultracold neutrons

Oct 18, 2005 · Replies 8 · Oct 20, 2005

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Graduate Can a Nuclear Force Microscope Manipulate Nucleons Within an Existing Nucleus?

Oct 18, 2005 · Replies 5 · Oct 19, 2005

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Graduate How Does Splitting an Atom Release Energy in Fission and Fusion?

Oct 11, 2005 · Replies 31 · Oct 18, 2005

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Undergrad Can Matter Become a Viable Energy Source?

Oct 14, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 14, 2005

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Graduate What is the best reference for understanding group theory in particle physics?

Oct 12, 2005 · Replies 2 · Oct 14, 2005

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Graduate Parity Violation in Pion Decay Explained

Oct 8, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 13, 2005

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Graduate Pion and Nucleon Masses: The Role of Electromagnetic Self-Energy Explained

Oct 10, 2005 · Replies 10 · Oct 12, 2005

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Graduate October issue of symmetry out today

Oct 12, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 12, 2005

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Graduate Drawing a Feynman Diagram for K^{*+}→K^0 + \pi^+

Oct 8, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 11, 2005

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Graduate Understanding SU(5) Representations: 5 Rep & 10 Rep

Oct 1, 2005 · Replies 19 · Oct 11, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Graviton Spin: Unveiling the Mystery of Spin 2

Oct 1, 2005 · Replies 7 · Oct 6, 2005

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Undergrad Splitting Particles: Beyond Elements & Nucleas?

Oct 4, 2005 · Replies 1 · Oct 5, 2005

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Graduate Q: The Mystery of Neutrinos from Collapsing Stars: What Kind are They?

Oct 3, 2005 · Replies 5 · Oct 4, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Nambu Goldstone Boson & Broken Symmetry

Oct 1, 2005 · Replies 3 · Oct 3, 2005

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Graduate What is the Casimir Effect and its implications for negative energy?

Jul 25, 2005 · Replies 23 · Oct 2, 2005

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Graduate Creating Matter from Virtual Particles

Sep 29, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 30, 2005

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Graduate Are There Particles Smaller Than Quarks?

Sep 27, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 29, 2005

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Graduate Electrostatically confined fusion reactor

Sep 28, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 29, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Toroidal Drift in Plasma Tokamaks

Sep 28, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 29, 2005

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Graduate Why do particles have antiparticles?

Sep 14, 2005 · Replies 15 · Sep 26, 2005

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Graduate Are all fundamental particles singular?

Sep 17, 2005 · Replies 15 · Sep 26, 2005

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Graduate Functional variation of Lagrangian densities

Sep 24, 2005 · Replies 1 · Sep 26, 2005

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Graduate Linus Pauling Close-Packed Spheron Model

Aug 25, 2005 · Replies 4 · Sep 23, 2005

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Graduate Particle/Anti-Particle question

Sep 19, 2005 · Replies 5 · Sep 19, 2005

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Graduate What will happen if two fermions, like electrons, come together

Sep 12, 2005 · Replies 4 · Sep 19, 2005

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Undergrad The most basic constituent of matter

Sep 7, 2005 · Replies 11 · Sep 18, 2005

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High School Elementary Particles: How Many Discovered?

Sep 17, 2005 · Replies 6 · Sep 17, 2005

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Graduate Non-central nature of nuclear force?

Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 5 · Sep 17, 2005

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Undergrad Pair Production & Momentum Conservation

Sep 16, 2005 · Replies 2 · Sep 16, 2005

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Undergrad Heard about anti-protons and anti-electrons

Aug 11, 2005 · Replies 22 · Sep 15, 2005

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Graduate Electron band structure in a nucleus

Sep 13, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 14, 2005

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High School Cosmological Constant: What & Why?

Sep 14, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 14, 2005

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Progress in Physics: Online Journal

Aug 2, 2005 · Replies 9 · Sep 13, 2005

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Graduate Thompson cross section for protons?

Sep 13, 2005 · Replies 2 · Sep 13, 2005

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Graduate Still searching for gravitational effect on proton and antiproton

Sep 9, 2005 · Replies 2 · Sep 13, 2005

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Graduate Mass conservation in meson theory

Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 4 · Sep 11, 2005

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Undergrad Nuclear Decay Problem: 238U to 206Pb & Atom's Age

Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 8 · Sep 10, 2005

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Undergrad Anyone taken a Plasma Physics class?

Jun 12, 2005 · Replies 3 · Sep 9, 2005

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Graduate Understanding the Weak Nuclear Force: Effects on Quarks & Leptons

Sep 7, 2005 · Replies 8 · Sep 9, 2005

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Graduate Feynman's Derivation: Find Universal Law of Gravitation

Sep 8, 2005 · Replies 4 · Sep 9, 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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