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Undergrad Why does pair production require a nucleus for momentum conservation?

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Undergrad Heard about anti-protons and anti-electrons

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Graduate Electron band structure in a nucleus

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High School What is the cosmological constant and why did Einstein introduce it?

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Progress in Physics: Online Journal

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Graduate Thompson cross section for protons?

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Graduate Still searching for gravitational effect on proton and antiproton

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Graduate Mass conservation in meson theory

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Undergrad Why does 238U decay to 206Pb and how old is the atom?

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Undergrad Undergraduate plasma physics textbook recommendations

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Graduate How does the weak nuclear force affect quarks and leptons?

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Graduate Feynman's Derivation: Find Universal Law of Gravitation

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Graduate Gravitational effect on proton and antiproton

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New issue of Symmetry magazine

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Graduate Why does matter outnumber antimatter in the universe?

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Graduate Can you physically break bonds between particles and shield them?

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High School What is electric charge and how do we define it for particles?

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Undergrad Alpha Particle Collision: Nucleus Distance

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Graduate Why are T3 and T8 generators used to define u, d, s flavors?

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Graduate Why Can't the Speed of Light Exceed 300,000 km/s?

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Graduate Does a proton's self-field change its rest mass?

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Graduate Is there a formula for such a thing?

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Graduate The Relationship Between Supersymmetric Particles and Their Superpartners

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Graduate Is Pair Production Possible in Empty Space Using the Relativity Equation?

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High School Is light a wave or a particle?

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Particle Physics Tutorial: Refresh Memory

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Graduate How can we stablize muonium and positronium?

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Undergrad Websites on Nuclei/particle/atomic reactions

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Graduate Can Lepton's Spin be Reduced to Zero? What Happens Then?

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Undergrad Can We Split Molecules Using Chain Reactions?

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Graduate Liquid drop model and langevin equation

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Graduate Do Gravitons Themselves Carry Gravity in Quantum Physics?

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Graduate Does Quantum Tunneling Degrade Information During Transmission?

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Graduate A Study on Anti-Matter Weapons and Their Potential Use

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Graduate HOMEbuilt H-Bombs? Fact or Fiction?

  • RonRyan85
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Graduate Heavier proton, lighter deuteron?

  • bakshi
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Graduate No pair production with light alone

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Graduate What is the Cross Section Calculus for Proton-Electron Scattering?

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Graduate The Two-Particle Density function

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Graduate Zinc-54 undergoes rare 2 proton decay

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Graduate Fermi Gas Model / Fermi energy and momentum

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Graduate Confusion on just what fundamental means

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Graduate Annihilation of virtual e-e+ pair

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Graduate Finding particle data on the higgs resonance width?

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Undergrad Can Fission and Fusion Transform Radioactive Atoms into Stable Ones?

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Graduate Gluon Colour Shift: Research Project Idea

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Graduate What forces and speeds keep the nucleus intact?

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Graduate Uh-oh. More Bubble Fusion News

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Undergrad Why are electric and magnetic fields perpendicular and oscillating around a moving charge?

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Graduate Pauli's exclusion principle bosons

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Graduate Anomaly-driven Decay of Massive Vector Bosons

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Graduate Z production cross section at LHC

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Undergrad Q's about Electrons, protons, and neutrons

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Undergrad Do chemical bonds affect radioactive decay rates?

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Particle physics in the Sunday cartoons:

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Graduate Propane to Plutonium Conversions?

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Graduate Pressure and rate of nuclear decomposure

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Undergrad Technological offsprings of particle physics

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Undergrad Do electrons redistribute in an earthed conductor when repelled by incoming electrons?

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Graduate Proton and anti-proton annihilation can produce extra pions

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High School When did deflection occur and when did diffraction occur?

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Graduate Stability of Binary System with Anti-Particle Circulation in Quantum Physics

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Graduate How Do Higgs Bosons Influence the Theory of Everything?

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Graduate Chemical influence on atomic decays.

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Graduate What happens to free quarks in particle accelerators?

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Nuclear proliferation is a major threat

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Graduate I-epsilon prescription and the definition of mass

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Graduate What is the smallest possible nuclear weapon and what are its potential uses?

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Graduate What are some potential ideas for a particle physics project involving biology?

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Graduate Particle-antiparticle annihilation and spin

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Graduate Is local gauge invariance limiting pQCD to a specific energy regime?

  • Cinquero
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Graduate Is Feynman's time-ordering prescription covariant?

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High School How Does Helium-3 Energy Output Compare to Traditional Explosives?

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Graduate Compton Radius vs Compton Wavelength

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Graduate What Is the Wave-Particle Duality of Photons in Quantum Mechanics?

  • KKHausman
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Graduate G Parity Operator Calculation for Neutral and Charged Pion States

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Graduate Why are neutrinos relatively uninteractive compared to other particles?

  • neurocomp2003
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Graduate The force of gravity can only be observed between two or more bodies

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High School What actually is electric charge?

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Graduate Energy required to keep air in a plasma state

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Graduate What is the role of a neutron sprayer in nuclear technology?

  • sniffer
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Graduate Why is the top quark so massive?

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Undergrad How Dense and Long-lived Are Neutron Stars?

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High School Converting particle energy in MeV to voltage

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Graduate Why can't a 0+ to 0+ transition be Gamow-Teller in beta decay?

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Graduate Is Anti-Gravity Possible with Anti-Gravitons?

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Graduate Why do electric neutral atoms exist in Dirac hole theory?

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Graduate Can right-handed and left-handed neutrinos convert if neutrinos have mass?

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Graduate LEP and other high energy collisions

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Graduate Proton Radius: Is it a Sphere or Shell?

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Undergrad Are particles gyroscopic in Joseph Newman's theory?

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High School How Was the Mass of the Electron First Measured?

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Undergrad Calculate Degree of Forbiddenness: Step-by-Step Example Included

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Graduate Recent experiment casts doubt on pentaquark existence

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Graduate What is a phenomenological model?

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Undergrad What is the smallest mass particle?

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Graduate Research about matter - antimatter reactor

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Graduate Where is experimental evidence for neutrino oscillation in vacuum?

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Undergrad Understanding Plasma Sputtering: A Brief Overview

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Graduate Antiparticles: only distinct propery is C(Q)?

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