All about the Large Hadron Collider The Hindu Science Quiz
The magnet core of the world’s largest superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
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The Large Hadron Collider is the worlds largest and most powerful particle accelerator. What among the following has been its most prominent discovery?
- Measure of mass of proton
- Sighting of the Higgs boson
- Evidence of supersymmetry
- Detection of gravitational waves
In 2012, the Higgs boson, which gives mass to the heavy elementary particles was detected for the first time at the Large Hadron Collider.
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What does the word Hadron refer to? Which of the following is the most accurate answer?
- Heavy particles like protons
- Electrons and positrons
- Electrons and protons
- Neutrinos
Heavy subatomic particles that are made of quarks, antiquarks and gluons, such as protons, neutrons etc.
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Given that the LHC is the world’s largest particle accelerator, how big is its ring shaped structure?
- 10 kilometre ring
- 20 kilometre ring
- 25 kilometre ring
- 27 Kilometre ring
The LHC consists of a 27 km ring of superconducting magnets and other accelerating structures.
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At minus 271.3 degrees Celsius, the temperature of the air surrounding the magnets is lower than that in outer space. What is the element used to cool the magnets to this low temperature?
- Hydrogen
- Nitrogen
- Helium
- Argon
Much of the accelerator is connected to a system that distributes liquid helium, which maintains the required low temperatures.
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One of the four major experiments being carried out at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is named LHCb. What does the letter “b” stand for?
- Second important
- Beauty
- Barium
- Building
B for Beauty – The experiment means to study elementary particles that contain the b quark, where b stands for beauty (or bottom).
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