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Super Quiz: The God Particle

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: January 4, 2013 at 1:18 a.m.

  1. LITTLE ROCK — The LHC was used to test the existence of the particle. What is the LHC?

  2. What type of instrument is the LHC?

  3. Where is it located?

  4. CERN is the research organization. For what do the “E” and “N” stand?

  5. The boson is hard to detect, as it ——— immediately after it is created.

  6. Higgs bosons are postulated by the ——— model of particle physics.

  7. The boson may explain why some other elementary particles acquire ———.

  8. Physicists hope to better understand the interrelation between general relativity and ——— mechanics.

  9. The name boson is derived from (a) a man’s name (b) a particle (c) a star.

Answers

  1. Large Hadron Collider

  2. Particle accelerator

  3. Near Geneva, Switzerland

  4. European and Nuclear

  5. Decays (vanishes, disappears)

  6. Standard

  7. Mass

  8. Quantum

  9. (a) A man’s name (Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose).

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