A muon (/ˈm(j)uː.ɒn/ M(Y)OO-on; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric...
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Muon-catalyzed fusion (abbreviated as μCF or MCF) is a process allowing nuclear fusion to take place at temperatures significantly lower than the temperatures...
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Muon Space is an American aerospace startup located in Silicon Valley, California. The company was founded in 2021 with the goal of building a climate-monitoring...
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Muon tomography or muography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate two or three-dimensional images of volumes using information contained...
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Muon g − 2 (pronounced "gee minus two") is a particle physics experiment at Fermilab to measure the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of a muon to a precision...
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The muon neutrino is an elementary particle which has the symbol ν μ and zero electric charge. Together with the muon it forms the second generation of...
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A Muon Collider is a proposed particle accelerator facility in its conceptual design stage that collides muon beams for precision studies of the Standard...
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Muon capture is the capture of a negative muon by a proton, usually resulting in production of a neutron and a neutrino, and sometimes a gamma photon....
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charged leptons (also known as the electron-like leptons or muons), including the electron, muon, and tauon, and neutral leptons, better known as neutrinos...
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Muon spin spectroscopy, also known as μSR, is an experimental technique based on the implantation of spin-polarized muons in matter and on the detection...
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The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (or MICE) is a high energy physics experiment at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The experiment...
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G-factor (physics) (section Muon g-factor)
magnetic moment resulting from the muon's spin, S is the spin angular momentum, and mμ is the muon mass. That the muon g-factor is not quite the same as...
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The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a neutrino telescope located beneath the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. In 2005, after nine...
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46°18′34″N 6°4′37″E / 46.30944°N 6.07694°E / 46.30944; 6.07694 The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics...
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Mu2e (redirect from Muon-to-electron conversion experiment)
Mu2e, or the Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment, is a particle physics experiment at Fermilab in the US. The goal of the experiment is to identify...
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The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source, established 1984 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology...
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The European Muon Collaboration (EMC) was formed in 1973 to study the interactions of high energy muons at CERN. These experiments were motivated by the...
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Anomalous magnetic dipole moment (section Muon)
anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is calculated in a similar way to the electron. The prediction for the value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment includes...
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85 attoseconds (8.5×10−17 seconds). Charged pions most often decay into muons and muon neutrinos, while neutral pions generally decay into gamma rays. The...
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electrons may be replaced by other negatively charged particles such as muons (muonic atoms) or pions (pionic atoms). Because these substitute particles...
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Mường Mươn is a commune (xã) and village of the Mường Chà District of Điện Biên Province, northwestern Vietnam. 21°40′N 103°04′E / 21.667°N 103.067°E...
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interaction. The six leptons consist of the electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, and tau neutrino. The leptons do not carry color charge...
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television-tube screens, and as a catalyst for the manufacture of picoline. The Muon g−2 experiment uses PbF 2 scintillators in conjunction with silicon photomultipliers...
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of the muons is caused by the collision of cosmic rays with the upper atmosphere, after which the muons reach Earth. The probability that muons can reach...
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Steven E. Jones (section Muon-catalyzed fusion)
American physicist. Among scientists, Jones became known for his research into muon-catalyzed fusion and geo-fusion. Jones is also known for his association...
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studied by muon spin rotation, in which the Mu atom's spin precesses in a magnetic field applied transverse to the muon spin direction (since muons are typically...
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Cargo scanning (section Muon tomography)
contained in the Coulomb scattering of the muons. Since muons are much more deeply penetrating than X-rays, muon tomography can be used to image through...
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many ways to write the words muôn tuổi, muôn năm in chữ Nôm, for example: muôn tuổi: 萬歲, 𨷈𢆫, 𨷈歲, 𲈦歲, 門𢆫, etc. muôn năm: 萬年, 𨷈𢆥 (), 㥃[⿰南林], 門南,...
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Vũ Muộn is a commune (xã) and village in Bạch Thông District, Bắc Kạn Province, in Vietnam. 22°15′00″N 105°58′10″E / 22.2500°N 105.9694°E / 22.2500;...
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create neutrinos in one of three leptonic flavors: electron neutrino, ν e muon neutrino, ν μ tau neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated with the correspondingly...
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