How to Use muon in a Sentence

muon

noun
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  • The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Muons are like electrons but heavier – with 200 times the mass.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom's center.
    — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom’s center.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Each minute, muons rocket through your skull by the hundreds.
    — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Megalodon, once the largest creature on earth, would have been a muon magnet.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2018
  • The denser the imaged object, the more muons are blocked, casting a telltale shadow.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Every minute, tens of thousands of muons pass through each square meter of Earth.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Travelling at close to the speed of light, muons shower Earth from all angles.
    — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 28 May 2018
  • Over the next few weeks the Muon g-2 team will test the equipment installed around the magnet, which will be storing and measuring muons for the first time in 16 years.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, 2 June 2017
  • Both sets of results involve the strange, fleeting particle called the muon.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • One of the first times scientists used muon imaging was to search for hidden chambers in Khafre’s pyramid at Giza in the late 1960s.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The endless muon rainstorm will shower the volcano at an angle.
    — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • These are photographic films which capture the tracks of muons passing through them.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
  • There are three kinds—the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino.
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The muon was one of the first unstable particles known, with its discovery dating back to 1936.
    — Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
  • By the time the neutrinos reached the Earth from the sun most had changed from electron neutrinos into muon or tau neutrinos.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2017
  • When a neutrino interacts with a neutron in the tank, a muon or an electron can be produced.
    — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Another idea is to collide muons, which are much heavier cousins to electrons.
    — Chandrashekhar Joshi, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • But all of them were much lighter than either a proton or neutron, while being heavier than an electron or a muon.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The electron, muon and tau flavors would all be observable, at least in principle.
    — William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
  • The electron and the muon, together with a third particle called the tau, are types of leptons and the difference between them is referred to as ‘flavours’.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2021
  • This was the reaction, famous in particle-physics circles, of Isidor Isaac Rabi to the discovery of the muon.
    — The Economist, 7 Apr. 2021
  • There are three types of neutrinos, referred to as the three flavors: electron, muon, and tau neutrinos.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The downside is that muons are unstable particles, with a lifetime of two millionths of a second.
    — Chandrashekhar Joshi, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • Unfortunately for physicists looking to depart from the predictions of the Standard Model, the muon seems to get its mass from the same place as the tau.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The blue line shows the reconstructed track of the muon, and the red arrow denotes the energy of the undetected muon neutrino.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In 1936, Anderson and his student, Seth Neddermeyer, recreated it in the lab, revealing the nature of the muon for the first time.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • So Tanaka and his colleagues turned to muons when developing their own alternative system.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 June 2023
  • The heavier cousins of the electron, muons could offer high-energy collisions via surprisingly compact hardware.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023

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