Exam 12: Special Relativity and Elementary Particles

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If the average lifetime of a proton was 10 33 years, about how many protons would you have to assemble together and observe simultaneously in order to witness a total of 100 proton decays in one year?

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Steven Weinberg, Abdus Salam, and Sheldon Glashow shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics for their development of __________.

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Every particle has a corresponding antiparticle.

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A photon is a boson.

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An elementary particle has a measurable size.

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If you do an experiment on Earth, and then do an identical experiment in a jet plane moving uniformly at a high speed, you get identical results from both experiments. This is an example of

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Short range interactions generally have carrier particles of greater mass than those for long range interactions.

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What is the symbol for a photon?

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Which of the following particle is unaffected by the strong force?

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If you do an experiment on Earth, and then do an identical experiment in a jet plane moving uniformly at a high speed, you get identical results from both experiments. This is an example of __________.

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The color force between quarks is carried by

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What's the quark structure of an antiproton?

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The prediction from special relativity that the length of a moving object will be shortened in the direction of motion is

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The four fundamental forces in nature are the __________, __________, __________, and  __________.

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A fermion has integral spin.

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Use the conservation laws to identify the missing particle in each of the following reactions. (a) Κ + p -> Σ+   + __________. (b) Κ+ -> ν μ + _________. (c) p + p -> p + π+ + ___________.

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Conservation of ___________ is observed in all interactions.

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A particle with an integral spin is a

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Conservation of __________ is observed in strong and electromagnetic interactions, but not in weak interactions.

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A lepton interacts via the strong interaction.

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