User:Marshallsumter/Radiation astronomy1/Mesons/Quiz

Meson astronomy is a lecture from the radiation astronomy department. It is currently under development for possible inclusion in the advanced radiation astronomy course: principles of radiation astronomy.

“The discovery [recorded in the event display on the right] came about when two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments recently combined their results and found overwhelming evidence of an extremely rare decay of a particle known as the Bs0 meson.”

The rare decay of the Bs0 meson is into two muons.

"Bs0 mesons oscillate between their matter and their antimatter counterparts, a process first discovered at Fermilab in 2006."

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Quiz
{Yes or No, A meson is a subatomic particle that is intermediate in mass between an electron and a proton. + Yes - No
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{True or False, Like all elementary particles, the meson has a corresponding antiparticle of opposite spin but equal mass and charge. - TRUE + FALSE
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{What negatively charged particles may be used as tracers of cosmic magnetic fields? { electrons (i) }
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{True or False, The radius of the proton is 4 percent smaller than previously estimated. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Yes or No, Each type of meson has a corresponding antiparticle (antimeson). + Yes - No
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{Complete the text: Charged-current charged pion production is a process in which a { neutrino (i) } interacts with an atomic { nucleus (i) } and produces a { muon (i) }, a charged { pion (i) } and recoiling nuclear fragments.
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{True or False, The phenomenology of cosmic ray cascades reflects in an essential way processes governed by the weak force. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Complete the text: Muons are produced, along with other particles, when { cosmic rays|cosmic-rays (i) } interact with { atomic nuclei (i) } in the Earth's atmosphere to produce { showers|'showers' (i) } of secondary particles.
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{True or False, Mesons inherit the high energy of the parent cosmic rays. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Yes or No, A meson apparently transmits the strong interaction that binds nucleons together in the atomic nucleus. + Yes - No
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Proving mesons are occurring astronomically requires demonstrating that products of such reactions exist.