Can you name the particles in the Standard Model?

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Standard Model Particles Quiz

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Created Oct 2, 2009 in Science
Featured Nov 4, 2009
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	elevatorman:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 04:13 GMT		6 points
	Good Quiz. It gave me the last boson by putting in the first letter and a space.

	other:	Oct 14th, 2009 at 21:12 GMT		5 points
	Very good quiz, surprised this hasn't gotten more plays.

	SlovakOne:	Oct 29th, 2009 at 12:30 GMT		18 points
	Perhaps you could include a bonus Higgs boson? Otherwise great quiz.

	xeju:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 18:05 GMT		5 points
	I kept trying Higgs Boson too - figured it would be a bonus.

	smeg4brains:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 20:53 GMT		2 points
	it won't accept just w+ or w-. hrm.

	bahhbara:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 21:54 GMT		9 points
	Also consider graviton for a bonus boson... Good quiz. Surprised that up and down quarks have more correct answers than electron! I guess people just don't know it's an elementary particle...

	Djibouti:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 22:16 GMT		13 points
	I'd suggest an antimatter version of this quiz, but if they got too close together, we'd have a gamma radiation quiz.

	Patteroast:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 22:33 GMT		8 points
	I like that you accept the alternates Truth and Beauty for Top and Bottom. :)

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	jacobf:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 00:37 GMT		0 points
	I thought I was just going to have to type in "lunch"... Get it? Because models (i. e. supermodels) eat mere particles for lunch, because they're so sickly and thin... Get it? Eh... forget it.

	confused:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 01:23 GMT		5 points
	I'm sure this is a very good quiz, but to answer "other": when I look at a quiz and haven't the slightest clue how to take even a wild guess... well, I don't play.

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	davidr:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 08:57 GMT		6 points
	@keiyashi: No. A gauge boson isn't a single particle: it's a class of particles including all the bosons in this quiz. And the W+/- boson is not the Higgs boson.

	R:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 09:54 GMT		2 points
	Actually, Higgs should just be in the quiz, not even as a bonus. It is an accepted part of the standard model, without it the standard model is not complete. And I'm majoring in theoretical physics.

	Pat423:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT		0 points
	Can't believe I missed gluon. =(

	MorningBell411:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 21:31 GMT		1 point
	Same here. I got all but the gluon...

	Shinyhubcaps:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 05:40 GMT		1 point
	I got 3 just by typing in single letters. "e" was an accepted answer (though I was going to type "electron"), as well as "w" and "z".

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	phorwsid:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 00:11 GMT		5 points
	graviton as bonus answer?

	MJongo:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT		3 points
	Yeah Higgs boson and Graviton should be bonuses

	originalduncstar:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 11:11 GMT		2 points
	i'd love a quiz with supersymmetric particles- sleptons etc

	Uhlan:	Nov 8th, 2009 at 10:39 GMT		1 point
	Damn, could only think neutrino, forgot about the branches.

	QuoLauren:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 13:24 GMT		-1 points
	Got it in 27 seconds. Then again, I happen to be a physicist in training.

	Qrystal:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 13:47 GMT		5 points
	This quiz was CHARMing. I'd give it TOP marks, but brought it DOWN one because accepting merely 'e' for electron is a little STRANGE.

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	ghetom:	Mar 8th, 2010 at 22:47 GMT		1 point
	@Firestorm, Epic fail. Gluons are either color,anti-color pairs (eg. red,anti-green or blue,anti-red) or a colorless superposition of states. Only the quarks have a single colour charge. Lets leave off naming the types of gluon!

	daHOOK:	May 28th, 2010 at 18:04 GMT		3 points
	If e is accepted as a lepton, why not mu ?

	globetrotter106:	Jun 29th, 2010 at 15:29 GMT		3 points
	@daHook: because not many of us happen to have greek letters mu and tau on our keyboards...

	samcash13593:	Jan 6th, 2011 at 16:25 GMT		3 points
	truth and beauty are better, they are a whimsical, but at least they don't have any double entendres...... i wasn't thinking dirty thoughts.

	mrbean3142:	Mar 25th, 2012 at 13:18 GMT		1 point
	That took all of 43 seconds, but still entertaining.

	Skayj2:	May 29th, 2012 at 13:07 GMT		1 point
	I agree with "R", the Higgs Boson is an accepted part of the standard model, so it should be in the quiz. However, I don't think that the Graviton should be in the quiz, even as a bonus. Because the Graviton was just made up in order to help give a rash explanation as to how Gravitation works.

	mrsiriustab:	Jul 4th, 2012 at 23:30 GMT		3 points
	Congratulations to the scientists who most likely discovered the Higgs Boson!

	jonbar18:	Oct 10th, 2012 at 01:19 GMT		1 point
	skayj2 - it was in no was "just made up". It was hypothesized, and theoretically proven to exist.

	axgtd:	Oct 15th, 2012 at 20:38 GMT		1 point
	Higgs ! Higgs ! Higgs ! Hurrah ! ... hmm, well, sorry for that.

	Xolotl123:	Nov 8th, 2012 at 13:13 GMT		1 point
	It may not be in the standard model, but a boson is any particle with an integer spin. So Deuterium (with spin = 1) technically is a boson.

	cheesenewyorkbob:	Nov 24th, 2012 at 17:59 GMT		0 points
	您好，希格斯玻色子是不是在那里。مرحبا، وبوسون هيغز هو ليس في هناك. Γεια σας, το μποζόνιο Higgs δεν είναι εκεί. שלום, בוזון היגס הוא לא שם. Hello, the Higgs boson isn't in there. You've been cnyb'ed. Laters.

	spacecadet712:	Dec 26th, 2012 at 06:23 GMT		1 point
	no one has "proven" the graviton exists. It is predicted by string theory, which is also unproven.

	Dunblas:	Apr 18th, 2013 at 12:40 GMT		1 point
	The standard model is just what it says: a (theoretical) model. This model DOES include the Higgs boson. So even though one can argue that this particle hasn't been found yet, it should be added to this quiz. However, this model does NOT predict a graviton.