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