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mu·on
/ ˈmyoōˌän/
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n. Physics
an unstable subatomic particle of the same class as an electron (a lepton), but with a mass around 200 times greater. Muons make up much of the cosmic radiation reaching the earth's surface.
DERIVATIVES:
mu·on·ic
/ myoōˈänik/ adj.
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Muons meet the Maya: physicists explore subatomic particle strategy for revealing archaeological secrets.
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/8/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...complex medium. With muons, all you need is...physicists are applying the muon method to studying...is building several muon detectors that would...trajectories of the muons that pass through...Schwitters plans to harness muons with four or five...light when hit by a muon. The bursts ...
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Muon orbits may defy main physics theory.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 2/17/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Brookhaven fired an intense muon beam into an extraordinarily...magnetic field. Because muons are electrically charged...is related to the muon's magnetic strength...physicists say. As the muons circle the accelerator...measurements of 1 billion muons. Until they can analyze...remaining 4 ...
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KEF Introduces Extraordinary Limited Edition MUON Speakers.
Business Wire; 10/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...of Ultra High-End Audio Loudspeakers MUON - A KEF Concept Designed by Ross Lovegrove...audiophile-quality speakers, launches MUON - a distinctly new loudspeaker that features...the apartment, where a stylish pair of MUON loudspeakers was featured. MUON is the...
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MEXICO: TEOTIHUACAN SUN PYRAMID IN FOR A 'MUON' SCAN
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...are going to place muon (subatomic particle...until March 2009. Muons are produced when...material deflects muons from their path...hollow spaces, so a muon scan yields an image...pyramid's interior. Muons hit the Earth at a...slow rate, about one muon per square centimetre...
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MEXICO: TEOTIHUACAN SUN PYRAMID IN FOR A 'MUON' SCAN.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 1/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...are going to place muon (subatomic particle...until March 2009. Muons are produced when...material deflects muons from their path...hollow spaces, so a muon scan yields an image...pyramid's interior. Muons hit the Earth at a...slow rate, about one muon per square centimetre...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Interview: Arturo Menchaca discusses how the muon detector he is installing in Mexico's Pyramid of the Sun may help archaeologists
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 3/27/2004; ; 613 words
; ...another cosmic purpose: to search for muons. Muons are subatomic particles. They float...Arturo Menchaca is installing the muon detector at the Pyramid of the Sun...WERTHEIMER: First of all, how can muons tell us who built the Pyramid of...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Muon-assured defence; Finding nukes.(Finding nuclear weapons at border-crossing points)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/26/2005; 700+ words
; ...elementary particles called muons. A muon is similar to an electron, but heavier and unstable. Muons are created in the atmosphere...line would mean that a muon had run into one or more...through. By tracking enough muons and applying enough computing...
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Physicists find muons bemusing: puzzling results may signify mystery particle or new force.(Matter & Energy)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...researchers have detected too many muons where there should be hardly any. Muons are heavy cousins of electrons...mundane explanation exists for the muons' aberrant location in this...chance, even if slim, that the muon detections indicate the existence...
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Subatomic Challenge to Accepted Physics; Scientists Say Behavior of Particles Called 'Muons' May Alter Understanding of Matter at Smallest Scale
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/9/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...higher magnetic strength for the muon than what was predicted by the...it and move beyond it. The muon g-2 experiment was viewed...beyond the Standard Model." Muons, like their cousin electrons...fields. This property of the muon -- known affectionately as...
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Muons Uncover Nuclear Material
Magazine article from: Signal; 4/1/2005; ; 428 words
; ...With a technique called muon radiography, scientists...natural scattering of muons, which are produced by...billion electron volts, muons can penetrate approximately...nuclei, deflect more muons than do less dense materials...dense items in the cargo. Muon radiography also is more...
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muon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...neutrino and antineutrino. Muons are produced by the weak decay of pions into a muon and a muon antineutrino...resemblance between the muon and the electron. Recent studies of muons have included the production...atoms to which an orbiting muon is added) and muonium...
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neutrino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Neutrinos are also emitted when a pion decays into a muon and in the decays of a number of other elementary particles...1962 it was found that the neutrino associated with the muon (the muon neutrino) is distinct from that associated with the...
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lepton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the electron and its antiparticle , the muon and its antiparticle, the tau and its antiparticle...occupy the same quantum state. However, one muon and one electron are allowed to occupy the same state. The muon was originally classed as a meson because...
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elementary particles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...electron; the other five leptons are the muon , the tau particle, and the three types...with each: the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino. The six...charged particles, such as the electron and muon. The strong nuclear force is responsible...
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meson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...However, the behavior of this particle, the muon , did not correspond to that of the theory at all. The muon was subsequently reclassified as a lepton...by C. F. Powell and coworkers. Both the muon and the pion were first observed in secondary...
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