One questions will be chosen among the following:
- What are the particles present in the room? What are their properties, their quantum numbers, and how do they interact?
- How are the forces described in modern quantum theories? In particular, how are the four elementary forces accounted for?
- What are the main detectors of cosmic rays? How do they work?
- What are the main astrophysical results coming from the observation of cosmic rays?
- What are the main results of neutrino astronomy?
- What are the main neutrino detectors? How do they work?
- What is the evidence for dark matter? What is the density of Dark matter?
- What are the broad classes of explanations of the dark matter puzzle?
- How are dark matter particles searched for? What are the results so far?
- Explain what gravitational waves, and summarise their main properties.
- What are the sources of detected gravitational waves? What are their characteristics? What other sources could be detected?
- Describe the LIGO and Virgo detectors and relate their characteristics to those of gravitational waves.
- What are the main results of gravitational wave astronomy?
- What are the main results of multimessenger astronomy?
- What are the characteristics of KAGRA, the Einstein Telescope and LISA? What kind of events can they detect?
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