A) Four B) Three C) Five D) Two
A) Strong interaction B) Weak interaction C) Electromagnetism D) Gravity
A) Quarks B) Force carriers C) Leptons D) Fermions
A) Z boson B) Gluon C) Photon D) W boson
A) Photon B) W boson C) Gluon D) Z boson
A) It lacks a mediating particle B) It is not a fundamental force C) It is too strong D) Contradictions between general relativity and quantum mechanics
A) Graviton B) Photon C) Z boson D) Gluon
A) Gravity B) Strong interaction C) Weak interaction D) Electromagnetism
A) General relativity B) Quantum chromodynamics C) Quantum electrodynamics D) Electroweak theory
A) Photons and gluons B) W and Z bosons C) Gravitons and photons D) Gluons and gravitons
A) It violates parity B) W and Z bosons have mass C) It is only for neutrinos D) It does not interact with charge
A) Nothing, they are neutral B) Particle flavor and charge C) Only particle spin D) Only particle mass
A) Charged current interactions B) Gravitational interactions C) Electromagnetic interactions D) Neutral current interactions
A) Strong interactions B) Charged current interactions C) Neutral current interactions D) Electromagnetic interactions
A) Electromagnetism B) Strong interaction C) Gravity D) Weak interaction
A) Nuclear B) Electromagnetic C) Strong D) Gravity
A) Electroweak interaction B) Unified field theory C) Quantum gravity D) Standard force
A) Protons B) Gluons C) Gravitons D) Neutrinos
A) Stephen Hawking B) Richard Feynman C) Peter Higgs D) Albert Einstein
A) 133 proton masses B) 125 GeV/c2 C) 7 TeV/c2 D) 1.4 TeV/c2
A) Tevatron B) LHC C) CERN D) ATLAS
A) Early 2010 B) July 2012 C) March 2013 D) Late 2011
A) Itself B) Gravity C) Only quarks D) Only photons
A) 133 B) 10 C) 125 D) 1000
A) Broken parity B) Generic continuous symmetry C) Discrete symmetry D) Supersymmetry
A) General Relativity B) Standard Model C) String Theory D) Atomic Model
A) 10-25 kg B) 7 TeV C) 1.4 TeV D) 125 GeV
A) It becomes a photon B) It grows in mass C) It becomes stable D) It decays
A) 2000 B) 1995 C) 1975 D) 2012
A) Tau neutrino B) Top quark C) Bottom quark D) Charm quark
A) Paul Dirac B) Murray Gell-Mann C) Sheldon Glashow D) Steven Weinberg
A) Chien-Shiung Wu B) Steven Weinberg C) Abdus Salam D) Sheldon Glashow
A) Asymptotic freedom B) Spontaneous symmetry breaking C) Parity violation D) Renormalization
A) Martin Perl B) Gerard 't Hooft C) Leon Lederman D) Abraham Pais
A) Sheldon Glashow B) Steven Weinberg C) Martin Perl D) Leon Lederman
A) 1973 B) 1995 C) 1979 D) 1983
A) Existence of quarks B) Neutrino oscillation C) Asymptotic freedom D) Weak neutral currents
A) Dark energy B) Electromagnetic interactions C) Existence of leptons D) W boson mass
A) Quantum electrodynamics B) Asymptotic freedom C) Supersymmetry D) Renormalization
A) Gerard 't Hooft B) Steven Weinberg C) Abdus Salam D) Sheldon Glashow
A) 18 B) 24 C) 12 D) 6
A) Color confinement B) Conservation of mass C) Heisenberg uncertainty principle D) Pauli exclusion principle
A) Second-generation particles B) Third-generation particles C) All neutrinos D) First-generation particles
A) Neutron B) Positron C) Proton D) Muon
A) They become leptons B) They decay into electrons C) They exist only as isolated particles D) They must bind into color-neutral hadrons
A) Neutrinos B) Leptons C) Baryons D) Mesons
A) Leptons B) Baryons C) Nucleons D) Mesons
A) Leptons B) Quarks C) Baryons D) Hadrons
A) 0 e B) +2/3 e C) +1 e D) -1 e
A) Their generation number B) Their spin direction C) The charges they carry D) Their half-life
A) High mass B) Variable mass C) 1 MeV D) Massless
A) Six B) Eight C) Four D) Twelve
A) Leptons B) Quarks C) Neutrinos D) Photons
A) Color-charge charts B) Feynman diagrams C) Interaction maps D) Schrodinger plots
A) 12 B) 19 C) 24 D) 8
A) Gell-Mann matrices B) Gamma matrices C) Dirac matrices D) Pauli matrices
A) Color charge B) Spin orientation C) Gauge boson masses D) Fermion masses
A) μ² = 1 B) μ² > 0 C) μ² < 0 D) μ² = 0
A) To define the symmetry breaking scale B) To maintain the complex nature of the field C) To generate masses for the gauge fields D) To ensure the potential is bounded from below
A) The electroweak gauge covariant derivative B) The quartic term C) The vacuum expectation value D) The kinetic term
A) μ/λ B) 2μ²/λ C) μ²/λ D) μ²/2λ
A) μ²/2λ B) 1/2 gv C) 1/2 sqrt(g²+g'²)v D) sqrt(2λ)v
A) 4x4 B) 1x3 C) 2x2 D) 3x3
A) Hermitian conjugate B) Horizontal component C) Hidden constant D) Higgs coupling
A) φ* B) φ_L C) φ~ D) φ_R
A) Generations B) Gauge charges C) Color indices D) Spin states
A) d_R B) u_R C) e_R D) Q_L
A) iτ_2φ* B) τ_2φ* C) iτ_2φ D) τ_2φ
A) Photons B) W bosons C) Higgs bosons D) Gluons
A) Asymptotic freedom B) Quantization C) Superposition D) Confinement
A) Pion B) W boson C) Gluon D) Top quark
A) Higgs boson B) Muon C) Top quark D) Charm quark
A) Fermilab B) CERN's LEP C) Large Hadron Collider D) Stanford Linear Accelerator
A) The seesaw mechanism. B) The lattice gauge theory. C) The inflationary model. D) The Higgs mechanism.
A) The matter-antimatter asymmetry. B) The hierarchy problem. C) The dark matter problem. D) The Yang-Mills gap.
A) The removal of all leptons. B) The elimination of the Higgs boson. C) The use of 100 constants. D) Severe fine tuning of the parameters.
A) The stability of the Higgs boson. B) Matter/antimatter asymmetry. C) The gravitational constant. D) The existence of neutrinos.
A) Cosmic inflation. B) Lattice gauge theory. C) General relativity. D) The seesaw mechanism.
A) Paul Langacker B) D.J. Griffiths C) Matthew D. Schwartz D) Robert Mann
A) Phenomenology B) Experimental particle decay C) Gauge theory D) History of physics
A) Quantum gravity B) Condensed matter physics C) Group theory D) String theory
A) S.F. Novaes B) M. Baak et al. C) Y. Hayato et al. D) E.S. Abers and B.W. Lee
A) Proton decay B) Higgs boson discovery C) Weak interaction gauge theory D) Group theory foundations
A) D.J. Griffiths B) Robert Mann C) Andrzej Buras D) Matthew D. Schwartz |