Muon in a sentence

Because charge must be conserved, one of the products of muon decay is always an electron of the same charge as the muon (a positron if it is a positive muon).

Because lepton numbers must be conserved, one of the product neutrinos of muon decay must be a muon-type neutrino and the other an electron-type antineutrino (antimuon decay produces the corresponding antiparticles, as detailed below).

However, Super-Kamiokande found that the number of upward going muon neutrinos (generated on the other side of the Earth) is half of the number of downward going muon neutrinos in 1998.

Like all elementary particles, the muon has a corresponding antiparticle of opposite charge (+1 e) but equal mass and spin: the antimuon (also called a positive muon).

The bottom two rows' columns contain electron neutrino (ν e ) and electron (e), muon neutrino (ν μ ) and muon (μ), tau neutrino (ν τ ) and tau (τ), and the Z 0 and W ± carriers of the weak force.

After further analysis, they found this was because the transmitter on one of the muon systems was malfunctioning.

A muon orbits the nucleus of an atom much more closely than an electron, lowering the barrier atoms need to fuse.

By colliding positrons and electrons at a specific, tunable energy, muon-antimuon pairs could be produced at will.

Scientists may have one of the oldest Christian churches in the world by using muon radiography to scan a mysterious subterranean building located in the ancient Russian city of Derbent, on the Caspian Sea's coast.

An experiment at Los Alamos created a large number of low-energy muon antineutrinos from the production of positive pions.

As is the case with other leptons, the muon is not believed to have any sub-structure—that is, it is not thought to be composed of any simpler particles.

Both effects are equally valid ways of explaining the fast muon's unusual survival over distances.

Efforts to construct an accelerator facility where neutrinos are produced through muon decays are ongoing.

Flavor oscillations main Neutrinos are most often created or detected with a well defined flavor (electron, muon, tau).

However, by virtue of carrying an electric charge, the electron, muon, and tau all interact electromagnetically.

However, in 2010 an international research team published a proton charge radius measurement via the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen (an exotic atom made of a proton and a negatively charged muon ).

However, in such cases the orbital of the muon continues to be smaller and far closer to the nucleus than the atomic orbitals of the electrons.

However, later particle physics experiments showed that the muon did not participate in the strong nuclear interaction.

However, some communities of astrophysicists continue to call the muon a "mu-meson".

However, the production of a muon/antimuon bound state, which is an onium, has been theorized.