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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 Many Types of Quarks Are There?

Apr 16, 2005 · Replies 8 · Apr 25, 2005

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Undergrad Detecting Protons: What Detectors Are Used?

Apr 24, 2005 · Replies 13 · Apr 25, 2005

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Graduate Calculating the Lifetime of J/ψ Meson Using the Uncertainty Principle

Apr 24, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 24, 2005

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Graduate What do they expect from the Large Hadron Collider ?

Apr 20, 2005 · Replies 10 · Apr 24, 2005

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Graduate How do Silicon PIN photodiodes convert alpha particles into electrical signals?

Apr 21, 2005 · Replies 11 · Apr 23, 2005

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Graduate Can pair production happen in vacuum?

Apr 19, 2005 · Replies 14 · Apr 22, 2005

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Undergrad Bubble chamber experiment help

Apr 17, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 21, 2005

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Graduate Why spinning protons have precession under magnetic field?

Apr 15, 2005 · Replies 15 · Apr 18, 2005

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Graduate What is the spin rate of a nuclear particle?

Apr 14, 2005 · Replies 11 · Apr 18, 2005

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Graduate Electron vs. positron? / spin?

Feb 18, 2005 · Replies 26 · Apr 17, 2005

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Graduate What type of particle has a size of 10^-21 m?

Apr 17, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 17, 2005

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Undergrad Joe's Uranium Problem: Alpha Particle Emission & Final Nucleus Mass

Apr 16, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 16, 2005

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Graduate Does the Pauli Exclusion Principle Apply to All Types of Particles and Atoms?

Apr 15, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 15, 2005

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Undergrad Definition of nuclide re metastable states

Apr 15, 2005 · Replies 2 · Apr 15, 2005

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Graduate Light outside of the event horizon

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Graduate How Does the Expansion of the Universe Affect Stars, Planets, and Atoms?

Apr 11, 2005 · Replies 9 · Apr 13, 2005

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Graduate Does the Existence of Pentaquarks Challenge the Principle of Colour Neutrality?

Apr 12, 2005 · Replies 3 · Apr 12, 2005

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Undergrad Difference Between Gamma Decay & Photons

Apr 12, 2005 · Replies 7 · Apr 12, 2005

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Graduate Single photon - how do they do this?

Mar 31, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 11, 2005

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Undergrad Do Photon's & Other Point Particles Have Mass?

Apr 10, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 11, 2005

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Graduate Generalized parton distributions

Sep 5, 2004 · Replies 4 · Apr 11, 2005

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Graduate What Are the Properties and Uses of Anti-Neutrinos?

Apr 8, 2005 · Replies 9 · Apr 11, 2005

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Graduate Particle Physics: Unstable Nuclides, Beta & Positron Decays Explained

Apr 9, 2005 · Replies 5 · Apr 10, 2005

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Graduate Why protons and neutrons have spins?

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 17 · Apr 10, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Electron Orbits: Curved Space or Other Explanation?

Apr 10, 2005 · Replies 5 · Apr 10, 2005

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Undergrad I Have A Question about FUSION

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 8, 2005

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Undergrad The recoil of an electron receding from a photon

Apr 6, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 8, 2005

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Undergrad Calculate Energy Req'd for 2 kmol HF from 2.0kg H and 38 kg F

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 1 · Apr 8, 2005

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Graduate Calculating Energy, Momentum & Mass for Neutral Pion Decay

Apr 7, 2005 · Replies 4 · Apr 7, 2005

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Undergrad I have a question about fusion

Apr 6, 2005 · Replies 5 · Apr 7, 2005

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Graduate What is the 'Power' equation for a single 'Planck Energy Photon'?

Mar 27, 2005 · Replies 9 · Apr 6, 2005

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Graduate There are said to be eight gluons

Mar 30, 2005 · Replies 10 · Apr 4, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Nuclear Reactions: Older Notation

Mar 9, 2005 · Replies 12 · Apr 4, 2005

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Graduate Van der Waerden's Derivation of the Dirac Equation

Apr 2, 2005 · Replies 6 · Apr 4, 2005

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Graduate Unveiling the Nuclear Force Acting on Atoms' Nuclei

Mar 29, 2005 · Replies 7 · Apr 1, 2005

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Graduate Detection of 10^-21 m Particles - Ray Veldkamp

Mar 30, 2005 · Replies 2 · Mar 30, 2005

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Undergrad Why do particles radiate outward?

Mar 25, 2005 · Replies 10 · Mar 30, 2005

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Undergrad Can subatomic particles undergo phase changes?

Mar 25, 2005 · Replies 7 · Mar 29, 2005

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Graduate Solving Problem 10.3 from Peskin's QFT Book

Mar 28, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 29, 2005

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Is there a classical book on particle physics

Mar 27, 2005 · Replies 10 · Mar 28, 2005

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Graduate Question about Neutral Pi-meson and Parity Conservation

Mar 25, 2005 · Replies 10 · Mar 28, 2005

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Graduate Energy Conservation - Understand Mass & Reactions

Mar 26, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 26, 2005

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Graduate Where to find this wigner's classical paper

Mar 26, 2005 · Replies 2 · Mar 26, 2005

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Graduate When electrons and positrons collide they produce 2 photons

Mar 23, 2005 · Replies 5 · Mar 25, 2005

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Graduate Testing gravity theories with Anti atoms

Mar 24, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 24, 2005

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Graduate Why is QCD non-perturbative at low energies?

Mar 21, 2005 · Replies 10 · Mar 22, 2005

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Graduate Anyone got an image of the inside of an electron?

Mar 2, 2005 · Replies 19 · Mar 22, 2005

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Graduate Does the Lamb Shift Suggest Variability in Electron Mass Within Atoms?

Mar 13, 2005 · Replies 5 · Mar 21, 2005

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Undergrad Neutron Activation: Isotope Identification by Half Life, Beta Particles

Mar 20, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 20, 2005

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Graduate AZING: 3e11 GeV Protons Discovered in Utah Sky

Mar 14, 2005 · Replies 5 · Mar 19, 2005

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Graduate Particle that goes along with the force of gravity?

Mar 17, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 17, 2005

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Graduate Multi-Channel Analyser: Scintillation Counter Usage

Mar 14, 2005 · Replies 6 · Mar 14, 2005

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Graduate Can Particle Exchange Forces Lower Energy in Yukawa's Model?

Feb 27, 2005 · Replies 26 · Mar 14, 2005

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Graduate Electron-Proton Collision: Annihilation and Mass Conversion Explained

Mar 13, 2005 · Replies 6 · Mar 13, 2005

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Graduate Binding energy between nucleons vs BE inside nucleons

Mar 7, 2005 · Replies 4 · Mar 13, 2005

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Undergrad To verify the estimated mass of a neutron

Mar 13, 2005 · Replies 7 · Mar 13, 2005

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Undergrad Are there any antimatter calculations?

Mar 12, 2005 · Replies 2 · Mar 13, 2005

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Undergrad Why don't neutral particles leave tracks in the bubble chamber?

Mar 9, 2005 · Replies 11 · Mar 13, 2005

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Undergrad O Physics: Why doesn’t the electron crash into the proton?

Mar 2, 2005 · Replies 38 · Mar 12, 2005

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Undergrad Understanding Beta Decay: How It Affects Atoms and Ionization

Mar 7, 2005 · Replies 23 · Mar 12, 2005

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Graduate What is the complete non-mathematical explanation for spin in particle physics?

Mar 9, 2005 · Replies 25 · Mar 12, 2005

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Undergrad Searching for Answers: The Higgs Boson Particle

Mar 10, 2005 · Replies 5 · Mar 10, 2005

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Graduate Observing & Identifying Carrier Particles

Jan 29, 2005 · Replies 14 · Mar 10, 2005

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Graduate Can a population inversion truly result in negative temperature?

Mar 5, 2005 · Replies 12 · Mar 8, 2005

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Graduate Particle Oddities: Theories Explained

Mar 8, 2005 · Replies 2 · Mar 8, 2005

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Graduate Why does precession occur in Muon Spectroscopy?

Mar 8, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 8, 2005

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Graduate Do Particles Possess Identical Characteristics?

Jan 4, 2005 · Replies 3 · Mar 8, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Neutron Decay in Elementary Particle Physics

Mar 2, 2005 · Replies 8 · Mar 7, 2005

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Graduate Planck Photon: Unifying Principle at the Dual Planck Energy Threshold

Feb 24, 2005 · Replies 20 · Mar 5, 2005

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Graduate Understanding Virtual Particles: The Mystery of Annihilation and Energy

Feb 19, 2005 · Replies 5 · Mar 5, 2005

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Graduate Is the Electron Truly Indivisible?

Mar 4, 2005 · Replies 1 · Mar 4, 2005

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Graduate Bubble Fusion Confirmed: New Energy Source?

Jan 27, 2005 · Replies 12 · Mar 2, 2005

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Graduate How do particles behave when approaching a black hole?

Mar 1, 2005 · Replies 3 · Mar 2, 2005

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Graduate Whether or not the particle performs complete oscillations?

Mar 1, 2005 · Replies 2 · Mar 1, 2005

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Undergrad Neutrino Oscillations and Mass: A Comprehensive Review

Feb 12, 2005 · Replies 13 · Feb 27, 2005

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Graduate Research on the pentaquark Θ 1540

Feb 27, 2005 · Replies 1 · Feb 27, 2005

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Graduate Why Is Momentum of One Particle Used in the Breit-Wigner Cross Section Formula?

Feb 21, 2005 · Replies 1 · Feb 23, 2005

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Graduate Nature of e=mc^2 and other miscelaneous questions

Feb 20, 2005 · Replies 2 · Feb 21, 2005

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Undergrad What can we do with nuclear waste?

Feb 19, 2005 · Replies 7 · Feb 20, 2005

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Graduate Does a massive object interact with its own gravitational field?

Feb 5, 2005 · Replies 8 · Feb 14, 2005

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Undergrad What causes atoms to break up spontaneously?

Feb 13, 2005 · Replies 3 · Feb 13, 2005

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Graduate What is a Preon? - Introduction to Preons

Jan 24, 2005 · Replies 7 · Feb 13, 2005

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Graduate What controls/defines S=1 for Photons?

Feb 6, 2005 · Replies 22 · Feb 13, 2005

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Graduate Can Neutrinos Decay? Examining Proton Decay Theories

Jan 27, 2005 · Replies 19 · Feb 13, 2005

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Graduate Compton Effect and Transmutation

Feb 8, 2005 · Replies 2 · Feb 9, 2005

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Graduate Protons Decaying: The Possibility and Impact of Proton Decay in the Universe

Feb 8, 2005 · Replies 2 · Feb 8, 2005

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Graduate What forces the 3rd electron to form a 2s state?

Jan 27, 2005 · Replies 18 · Feb 7, 2005

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Graduate Positron-Electron Annihilation - two questions

Feb 4, 2005 · Replies 5 · Feb 6, 2005

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Graduate Answer: All Particles Carry Elementary Charge +-e?

Feb 5, 2005 · Replies 6 · Feb 5, 2005

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Graduate Head-On Collisions of True Point Charges

Feb 4, 2005 · Replies 2 · Feb 5, 2005

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Graduate Questions about EMP Effects in Spacecraft

Feb 3, 2005 · Replies 1 · Feb 3, 2005

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Convert matter to energy and back into matter

Feb 1, 2005 · Replies 2 · Feb 2, 2005

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Graduate Electron in an l=+1,0,-1 state hopping

Jan 24, 2005 · Replies 28 · Jan 29, 2005

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Graduate What is a Multiring Trap? A Similarity to Penning Trap?

Jan 28, 2005 · Replies 1 · Jan 29, 2005

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Graduate How would you find the magnetic field of a spinning nucleus?

Jan 26, 2005 · Replies 2 · Jan 28, 2005

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Graduate Quarks Without Color: Investigating the Consequences of a Colorless Universe

Jan 21, 2005 · Replies 4 · Jan 24, 2005

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Graduate The H (1s) electron BE=13.6eV. What about the nucleus etc?

Jan 22, 2005 · Replies 4 · Jan 24, 2005

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Graduate Group consists of a set and an operation

Jan 23, 2005 · Replies 4 · Jan 23, 2005

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Undergrad Why Should We Care About Particles?

Dec 11, 2004 · Replies 18 · Jan 23, 2005

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Graduate How Do Electrons in Neon Follow Pauli's Exclusion Principle?

Jan 22, 2005 · Replies 9 · Jan 23, 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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