In their namesake “puzzle,” these particles have a higher-than-expected detection rate in the LHC Forward experiment. The Higgs boson was discovered by both the ATLAS collaboration and the Compact Solenoid detector named for these particles. An inconsistency in the Standard Model is the 3.5-standard-deviation discrepancy between this particle’s measured and predicted g-factor. By increasing the reduced mass of hydrogen, these particles are hypothesized to catalyze a type of cold fusion. The Rossi–Hall experiment showed time dilation by observing discrepancies in the 2.2-microsecond decay time of these particles after they were produced in the atmosphere by cosmic rays. For 10 points, name this unstable lepton with a mass between that of the tauon and electron. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 93.17 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 76.25 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 68.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 83.50 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 29% | 81.20 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 83.17 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 82.50 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 98.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | UIUC A | 10 | -5 |
| Geoffrey Wu | Columbia A | Haverford A | 12 | -5 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins B | Rutgers C | 28 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | UChicago A | 33 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 34 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | SFU | Alberta | 34 | -5 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Central Oklahoma | 38 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Bard A | 50 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State A | Princeton A | 50 | -5 |
| Matt Schiavone | Northwestern A | Purdue A | 51 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF D | 58 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Penn B | 68 | 10 |
| Matthew Siff | Yale A | Northeastern A | 69 | 10 |
| Aswath Karai | Michigan State A | Michigan B | 69 | -5 |
| Sam Wang | Pitt B | CWRU B | 69 | -5 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Iowa | 69 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | UBC B | 69 | 10 |
| Leo Law | UF A | Florida State University A | 69 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Bowdoin A | 71 | -5 |
| Yahwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pitt A | 71 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | UIUC C | Miami | 72 | -5 |
| Alejandro Prieto Mendoza | Texas D | Colorado College | 72 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 75 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | UChicago C | UIUC D | 75 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 81 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Tufts B | 83 | 10 |
| Cyrus Zhou | WUSTL A | McGill E | 83 | -5 |
| Jacob Evans | Michigan State C | CWRU D | 86 | 10 |
| Gia Harvey-Slager | Texas C | Vassar B | 93 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale C | Carabrandeis | 95 | 10 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | UW B | 96 | 10 |
| Emmet Thomsen | Brown A | Tufts A | 98 | 10 |
| Ishaan Singh | Purdue B | UChicago D | 99 | -5 |
| Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Mississippi State | 99 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | UChicago B | WashU D | 101 | -5 |
| Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson | Kenyon A | Kenyon B | 101 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF E | Florida Tech B | 101 | -5 |
| Derek Fino | Clark A | Boston University A | 102 | -5 |
| Cindy Zhou | Boston University B | Amherst A | 103 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Yale B | 111 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Penn State A | 113 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | NYU A | 113 | 10 |
| Jason Nichols | Florida Tech A | UF F | 113 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeises Brew | 114 | 0 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Williams A | 114 | 0 |
| Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Diamond Brandeis | 114 | 0 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | A Brandeis Supreme | 114 | 0 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Columbia A | 114 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Columbia B | 114 | 0 |
| Emmett Cho | UChicago D | Purdue B | 114 | 0 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | Indiana B | 114 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | UIUC A | UIUC B | 114 | 10 |
| Francis Bernhardt | Miami | UIUC C | 114 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | UChicago B | 114 | 0 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan State A | 114 | 0 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU B | Pitt B | 114 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 114 | 10 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill E | WUSTL A | 114 | 0 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | Texas B | Vassar A | 114 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Texas B | 114 | 0 |
| Jackson Hopper | Mississippi State | Oregon State | 114 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF D | UCF A | 114 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Florida Tech B | UF E | 114 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF C | UCF B | 114 | 0 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | UF C | 114 | 0 |