Muons in a sentence

Compared to other cosmic particles, muons have many unique real-world applications, including helping scientists to peer inside large, dense objects like the pyramids or detecting hazardous nuclear material.

Sure, the muons are moving close to the speed of light, but we're observing them from a reference frame where we're stationary.

When bottomonium decays it leaves behind a pair of ‘heavy electrons’ called muons.

While cosmic ray showers are common from high-energy particles, it's mostly the muons which make it down to Earth's surface, where they are detectable with the right setup.

From asymmetries in the decay kinematics one may infer the size of the magnetic moment that muons possess, to which a theoretical calculation of the same quantity can be compared.

Instead, they thought they were observing even heavier cousins of the muons, called taus.

As an example, so-called "secondary muons", generated by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere, can penetrate to the Earth's surface, and even into deep mines.

Due to their greater mass, muons are not as sharply accelerated when they encounter electromagnetic fields, and do not emit as much bremsstrahlung (deceleration radiation).

For example, electrons may be replaced by other negatively charged particles such as muons (muonic atoms) or pions (pionic atoms).

However, the Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) predict that can decay into lighter energetic charged particles such as electrons, muons, pions or others which can be observed.

In the atmosphere and deep into the ocean, the "neutron background" is caused by muons produced by cosmic ray interaction with the atmosphere.

Muon-catalyzed fusion : Muons allow atoms to get much closer and thus reduce the kinetic energy required to initiate fusion.

Muons were previously called mu mesons, but are not classified as mesons by modern particle physicists (see main), and that name is no longer used by the physics community.

Negative muons can, however, form muonic atoms (also called mu-mesic atoms ), by replacing an electron in ordinary atoms.

The muons from these high energy cosmic rays generally continue in about the same direction as the original proton, at a velocity near the speed of light.

These high energy muons are capable of penetration to considerable depths in water and soil.

The Super-K detector will record the Cerenkov radiation of muons and electrons created by interactions between high energy neutrinos and water.

The system will run special processes to check for spallation muons when burst candidates meeting “alarm” criteria and make a primarily decision for further process.

Traveling at relativistic speeds, muons can penetrate tens of meters into rocks and other matter before attenuating as a result of absorption or deflection by other atoms.

Upward stopping muons (USM) are also produced in the rock beneath the detector but stop in the inner detector.