Particle Physics
Astrophysics
Neutrinos
Natural Areas
Art
100
These elementary particles are the basic building blocks of ordinary matter.
What are up and down quarks and electrons?
100
This very famous American astronomer went to high school in Wheaton, Illinois, and has a middle school and an orbiting space telescope named in his honor.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
100
The neutrino beam created at Fermilab consists of 100% of this type of neutrino.
What is a muon neutrino?
100
The acorn nut produced by this tree is an important food for wildlife at Fermilab.
What is an oak?
100
This American theoretical physicist born in 1918 developed a pictorial representation which describes subatomic particles.
Who is Richard Feynman?
200
A proton is how many times smaller than a single grain of sand.
What is a trillion?
200
This fourth state of matter, not a solid, a liquid or a gas, is matter in a state where the electrons are pulled free from the atoms and can move independently.
What is a plasma?
200
This particle is always there when a tau neutrino is born or interacts with matter.
What is a tau lepton?
200
This second largest rodent in the world, found at Fermilab, is known for building dams.
What is a beaver?
200
This American statistician/artist was exhibited in the Fermilab Art Gallery in 2014?
Who is Edward Tufte?
300
Without this force, the sun would cease to exist. It allows the fusion of protons and neutrons to form deuterium.
What is the weak force?
300
This plasma of charged particles coming out of the sun in all directions at very high speeds makes the tails of comets point away from the sun.
What is the solar wind?
300
These particles are the only fundamental particles masses of which are not known to scientists.
What are electron, muon, and tau neutrinos?
300
The flower of an early-blooming prairie plant looks like a meteor entering the earth’s atmosphere.
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What is a shooting star?
300
Edward Tufte’s exhibition at Fermilab brought these diagrams to three-dimensional life.
What are Feynman diagrams?
400
Without this type of magnet, we would have no TVs, computers or telephones. They are also used in particle accelerators.
What are electromagnets?
400
This location in space is where the earth's magnetic field balances the pressure of the solar wind.
What is the magnetopause?
400
The sun makes streams of this type of neutrinos.
What are electron neutrinos?
400
This caterpillar is much loved by all at Fermilab.
What is a monarch butterfly?
400
This is the name of the vehicle on display during Tufte’s exhibit, The Cognitive Art of Feynman Diagrams.
What is the Feynman van?
500
This particle is always right-handed.
What is an antineutrino?
500
These huge bursts of solar wind rise above the Sun's corona and are some of the biggest explosions in our solar system.
What are coronal mass ejections (CMEs)?
500
Bruno Pontecorvo was the first physicist to propose the existence of this property of neutrinos.
What is neutrino oscillation?
500
The leaves of this woodland plant look like the skin of a common freshwater fish.
What is trout lily?
500
Tufte’s exhibition at Fermilab included the display of this Airstream trailer.
What is “Interplanetary Explorer?”