The cinderella particle. (muons found useful for studying magnetic fields)

From: Discover | Date: December 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

The lowly muon is no longer the odd little interloper that nobody wants; now i't's a tool for exploring the spaces between atoms in the remote interiors of solids.

Sometimes when Nature poses a problem of seemingly insurmountable difficulty, she simultaneously reveals a subtle phenomenon in an unexpected quarter that opens the door to a clever solution. In the nineteenth century, for example, the French philosopher Auguste Comte stated unequivocally that the composition of stars was something not merely unknown but forever unknowable. Comte could not have foreseen that in ...

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