Question
A type of these particles has an X charge of negative five or a “B minus L” of negative one in the SO(10) (“S-O-ten”) grand unification theory. A mechanism that predicts unobserved “heavy” instances of these particles diagonalizes a matrix such that the off-diagonal components are the Dirac mass and are much smaller than the second diagonal entry. A mechanism involving these particles was the subject of a 1990s experiment at Los Alamos that used a liquid scintillator tube. Unobserved instances of these particles that have right-handed chirality are termed “sterile.” Detectors like Super-Kamiokande attempt to observe mass oscillations of these particles. For 10 points, name these extremely light leptons that only interact through the weak force and gravity. ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.33 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 73.00 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.50 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.00 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.13 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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June Yin | WashU B | Chicago D | 35 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis B | 35 | 10 |
Joy An | Harvard A | BU | 57 | -5 |
Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | UNC C | 61 | 10 |
Mason Yu | Brown A | Harvard B | 71 | 10 |
Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Chicago A | 76 | 10 |
Matthew Wang | UBC | UW A | 77 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 77 | 10 |
Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | John Jay College | 77 | 10 |
Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Haverford B | 80 | 10 |
Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Missouri | 86 | 10 |
Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 88 | 10 |
Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 89 | 10 |
Coby Tran | Chicago C | WashU A | 89 | 10 |
Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Illinois B | 89 | 10 |
Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Indiana B | 89 | 10 |
Will Zhang | Tufts A | UMass Boston | 89 | 10 |
Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | ASU | 89 | 10 |
Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 89 | 10 |
Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn B | 89 | 10 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 89 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC D | 91 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 92 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 92 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Washington B | 92 | 10 |
Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Vassar A | 92 | 10 |
Emma Byron | Rutgers A | NYU B | 92 | 10 |
Samuel Li | William & Mary | Liberty C | 96 | 10 |
Jake Markus | Dartmouth A | Brandeis A | 97 | 10 |
Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 100 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 108 | 10 |
Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty B | 118 | 10 |
Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Liberty A | 118 | 0 |
Jem Burch | Yale A | Haverford A | 118 | 0 |
Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Yale A | 118 | 10 |