Particle Physics Quiz

...in groups of 3 persons...

Masterclasses Particle Physics - 19th of March 2005

✗ 3 series of 8 questions✗ 30 seconds per question✗ multiple choice✗ always 1 good answer✗ the winning team gets a prize! (each member of the team)

Rules of the Game

Prize:

M. Veltman (nobelprice winner)

“Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics”

Series I

Question 1: which particle has not beendiscovered yet?

a. the top quark

b. the tau lepton

c. the Higgs boson

d. the pion

Question 2: up to what energy do we expectprotons to be accelerated in the LHC?

a. 1 TeV

b. 3 GJ

c. 7 TeV

d. 14 TeV

Question 3: which particle is massless?

a. the Higgs-particle

b. the up-quark

c. the electron

d. the photon

Question 4: who invented the cloud chamber?

a. Compton

b. Wilson

c. Rutherford

d. Chadwick

Question 5: how is the bottom quark also called?

a. charm quark

b. bubble quark

c. bilou quark

d. beauty quark

Question 6: what does PM mean in the frameworkof particle detection?

a. proton multiplexer

b. phase modulator

c. post modernism

d. photo multiplier

Question 7: how old is the universe accordingto the latest meaurements?

a. 15.0 x 106 y

b. 3.0 x 108 y

c. 13.7 x 109 y

d. 28.2 x 109 y

Question 8: which is not or was not a particlephysics experiment?

a. GARGAMELLE

b. ALADDIN

c. BELLE

d. BABAR

Series II

Question 9: which force is not described bythe Standard Model?

a. electromagnetism

b. the weak force

c. the strong force

d. gravitation

a) c)

b) d)

Question 10: which interaction is impossiblein the Standard Model?

photon

Z

Z

photon

photon

W+

W-

Z

ZH

Z

Z

W+

W-

Question 11: which of the following is themost massive object?

a. Z-particle

b. a silver atom

c. W-particle

d. top-quark

Question 12: what is measured with a calorimeter?

a. energy

b. momentum

c. charge

d. mass

Question 13: what is not a consequence ofelectromagnetism?

a. friction

b. viscosity

c. radioactivity

d. molecule formation

Question 14: which of the following is noLHC experiment

a. ATLAS

b. LHCb

c. ALICE

d. ALEPH

Question 15: what is the weakest fundamentalforce?

a. electromagnetism

b. weak force

c. strong force

d. gravity

Question 16: when is the startup of LHC foreseen?

a. 2005

b. 2006

c. 2007

d. within five years

Series III

Question 17: how many gluons can bedistinguished?

a. 1

b. 3

c. 8

d. 13

Question 18: who discovered cosmic rays?

a. Hess

b. Auger

c. Galilei

d. Hubble

Question 19: which of the following particlesis not a boson?

a. the photon

b. the gluon

c. the muon

d. the Higgs-particle

Question 20: how fast should a particle travelto emit Cerenkov light?

a. faster than the speed of light in vacuum

b. as fast as the speed of light in vacuum

c. faster than the speed of light in the medium

d. as fast as the speed of light in the medium

Question 21: how large is the decay timeof the proton?

a. 1 microsecond

b. 1 second

c. > 1033 years

d. infinite

Question 22: how much data will need to be storedand processed for 10 years of LHC running?

a. 10 000 GB

b. 100 000 GB

c. 1 000 000 GB

d. 10 000 000 GB

Question 23: which decay has the largestprobability ?

a. Z0 e+e-

b. Z0 +-

c. Z0 +-

d. all three have equal probability

Question 24: what happened before the Big Bang ?

a. we don't know

b. the previous universe collapsed

c. there were many small universes

d. Einstein was playing cards

Open Question

How large is the current cost estimate of the LHC?(in Million EURO)