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