: an unstable lepton that is common in the cosmic radiation near the earth's surface, has a mass about 207 times the mass of the electron, and exists in negative and positive forms
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Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics used muonic hydrogen, replacing the electron orbiting the nucleus with a muon, the electron’s heavier (and very short-lived) sibling.
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ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
By carefully measuring the energy and momentum of muons produced in about 100 million collisions thought to have created W bosons, the physicists arrived at their new mass estimate.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
From 1993 to 1998, an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory called the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector, or LSND, saw what looked like too many electron neutrinos in a beam of mostly muon neutrinos.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
The team is now exploring the feasibility of using muons, one of the fundamental subatomic particles, in a future high-energy muon collider.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
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ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
By carefully measuring the energy and momentum of muons produced in about 100 million collisions thought to have created W bosons, the physicists arrived at their new mass estimate.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
From 1993 to 1998, an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory called the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector, or LSND, saw what looked like too many electron neutrinos in a beam of mostly muon neutrinos.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
The team is now exploring the feasibility of using muons, one of the fundamental subatomic particles, in a future high-energy muon collider.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
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“Muon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muon. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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