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Article in Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics

How can I find an old paper from Soviet journal of Nuclear Physics B. G. Zakharov, Yad. Fiz. 49. 1386 (1989) [Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 49, 860 (1989)], in Russian or in English? This volume is abs of Sov.J....
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How can I find an old paper from a Soviet journal of physics?

I'm looking for the paper of I. Y. Kobzarev, L. B. Okun and I. Y. Pomeranchuk, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 3 (1966) no.6, 837 [Yad. Fiz. 3 (1966) 1154], which I think has the title: On the possibility of ...
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Source of a problem on pion-proton interaction in elementary particles

What book is this picture taken from? It is page 383 of the book in question.
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Surprisingly substantial 1980's popular science book about particle physics

As a teenager, back in the late 1980s or possibly very early 1990s, I came across a very nice popular science book on particle physics in my hometown library, that I probably borrowed and read at ...
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Advanced quantum field theory by David Tong

In his freely available lectures on Gauge Theories and String Theory, David Tong makes multiple references to a course called Advanced Quantum Field Theory (in particular, the Faddeev-Popov trick ...
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Lecture notes by Rudolf Mössbauer

Rudolf Mössbauer was an excellent lecturer. He gave lectures on Neutrino Physics, Neutrino Oscillations, The Unification of the Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions and The Interaction of Photons and ...
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Parity violating cows

I am preparing an outreach talk about CP violation. I can vaguely remember that there is a (famous?) nature paper about parity violating cows (direction of chewing rotation is not evenly distributed.) ...
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Steerable neutrino beam

I read a proposal (by real particle physicists) for a steerable neutrino beam source that could feasably destroy nuclear weapons anywhere on the planet from a single location here. I believe the ...
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Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Matthew Schwartz - Solution's manual [closed]

Is there a way I can find a solution's manual for Matthew Schwartz's "Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model" book?
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What did Skobeltsyn publish about the possible existence of the positron?

I've read across several sources that before C. Anderson discovered the positron in 1933 there were evidence of its existence pointed out previously by C.-Y. Chao and D. Skobeltsyn. After some rearch ...
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Is there a machine readable format of the data tables in Particle Data Group PDFs?

Is there a machine-readable format of the tables of data in PDG documents such as this one? http://pdg.lbl.gov/2011/download/rpp-2010-booklet.pdf Something such as JSON, XML, CSV, HTML, or anything ...
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Original paper on Lorentz representation theory

Which was the original paper on the representations of the Lorentz group? Is there even one paper on this, or was this knowledge gained iteratively in a series of papers?
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What is the first appearance of the MV (McLerran-Venugopalan) initial condition?

First a quick introduction for the unfamiliar: in saturation physics (my research field), a lot of theoretical work centers on the BK (Balitsky-Kovchegov) equation, which is a differential equation ...
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SUSY, ways to boost Chargino/Neutralino production?

Does anybody know a good reference that works out the equations for the Chargino/Neutralino production cross section in SUSY? I'm trying to understand if there are any tricks for boosting the ...
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Dynamical supersymmetry breaking and Witten index

Witten index, defined as ${\rm Tr}(-1)^F$, determines if supersymmetry is spontaneously broken or not for a given model. However, it is also known that supersymmetry can be dynamically broken. One ...
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