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