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 |
| Kevin Ye | SFU | Alberta | 34 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 34 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sam Wang | Pitt B | CWRU B | 69 | -5 |
| Aswath Karai | Michigan State A | Michigan B | 69 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Mississippi State | 99 | -5 |
| Ishaan Singh | Purdue B | UChicago D | 99 | -5 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF E | Florida Tech B | 101 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | UChicago B | WashU D | 101 | -5 |
| Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson | Kenyon A | Kenyon B | 101 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | A Brandeis Supreme | 114 | 0 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Williams A | 114 | 0 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeises Brew | 114 | 0 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Columbia A | 114 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Columbia B | 114 | 0 |
| Francis Bernhardt | Miami | UIUC C | 114 | 10 |
| Jackson Hopper | Mississippi State | Oregon State | 114 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Texas B | 114 | 0 |
| Abhinav Rachakonda | Texas B | Vassar A | 114 | 0 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill E | WUSTL A | 114 | 0 |
| Roman Bassett | UF D | UCF A | 114 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Florida Tech B | UF E | 114 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | UChicago D | Purdue B | 114 | 0 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | Indiana B | 114 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | UIUC A | UIUC B | 114 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF C | UCF B | 114 | 0 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | UF C | 114 | 0 |
| Evan Lucca | Bowdoin A | Diamond Brandeis | 114 | 0 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | UChicago B | 114 | 0 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU B | Pitt B | 114 | 0 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan State A | 114 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 114 | 10 |