Q48 · Practice questionSimple familiar1 mark
QUESTION 48
A student sorts elementary particles into two groups. Which row contains only quark flavours in the first group and only charged leptons in the second?
(A)
quarks: up, charm, strange; leptons: electron, muon, tau
(B)
quarks: proton, neutron, strange; leptons: electron, photon, tau
(C)
quarks: top, bottom, neutrino; leptons: muon, pion, electron
(D)
quarks: up, down, gluon; leptons: electron, muon, proton
WORKED SOLUTION
1 markAnswer A
ANSWER
A
Worked solution
Up, charm and strange are quark flavours, while electron, muon and tau are charged leptons. The complete quark set is up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom.
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