Question
Either this force or the TeV (“T-E-V”) energy scale names the brane corresponding to the conventionally observable world in a theory that aimed to resolve the hierarchy problem. For 10 points each:
[10e] What force is unified with electromagnetism in the Standard Model?
ANSWER: weak force [or weak interaction or weak nuclear force; accept electroweak force or electroweak interaction; accept Weakbrane]
[10h] The Weakbrane is part of the first of two versions of this five-dimensional model of spacetime proposed by two eponymous physicists in 1999. Both versions of this model include the Planck brane.
ANSWER: Randall–Sundrum model [accept RS model or RS1 model or RS2 model]
[10m] The Randall–Sundrum model exemplifies this type of space with constant negative curvature. Juan Maldacena proposed a correspondence between conformal field theories, or CFTs, and this type of space partly named for a Dutch scientist.
ANSWER: anti-de Sitter space [or AdS space; accept AdS/CFT correspondence; reject “de Sitter space” or “dS space”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 14.17 | 88% | 46% | 8% |
Data
| Arizona State | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kentucky | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Illinois | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech | NYU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman State | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WUSTL B | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |