Particle Physics Student Quiz

Which type of fundamental particle can combine with each other?

• Hadrons

• Leptons

• Neutrinos

• Quarks

What quarks are protons made of?

• U U D

• D D U

• U D C

• S S C

What is the weak nuclear force responsible for?

• Colour interaction

• Electron repulsion

• Mass attraction

• Nuclear decay

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What is NOT a quark flavour?

• Charge

• Top

• Up

• Warm

Which lepton flavour is the third generation?

• Electron

• Muon

• Positron

• Tauon

Which quark flavour is in the second generation?

• Down

• Strange

• Top

• Up

What elementary particle makes up light?

• Gluons

• Leptons

• Photons

• Quarks

• All of the above

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The name of a particle with no internal structure

• Atomic Particle

• Base Particle

• Elementary Particle

• Smallest Particle

Theoretically, what particles can travel faster than the speed of light?

• Boson

• Lepton

• Neutron

• Photon

• Tachyon

Which is not a generation pair of quarks?

• Charm, Strange

• Up, Bottom

• Top, Bottom

• Up, Down