University of Queensland researchers have made a breakthrough in muonic atom research, clearing the way for new nuclear ...

What’s a muon? The Earth is under constant bombardment from cosmic rays, most of them being nuclei expelled from supernova explosions. As they collide with nuclei in our atmosphere, pions and ...

But there are still cosmic wonders we don't understand — mysteries that the discovery of a fifth force of nature may help solve. The magnificent muon and its unusual wobble In 2021, physicists ...

Muon tomography, or muography, is the practice of using muons generated by cosmic rays interacting with Earth’s atmosphere to image structures on Earth’s surface, akin to producing an X-ray.

He proposed using muons, highly penetrating subatomic particles created when cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere, to search for hidden chambers within one of the pyramids of Giza. These muon ...

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in Nature that describes the detection of the decay products of an extremely ...

A muon is a particle that is 200 times heavier than an electron. The additional mass allows it to penetrate through hundreds of metres of materials including brick and concrete. Cosmic ray muons are ...

Cosmic rays can tell us about space and the universe. In the 20th century, cosmic rays helped scientists discover antimatter and the muon—the first evidence for subatomic particles beyond the proton, ...

STEEL collects cosmic-ray muon data, reading out an event when a muon simultaneously triggers the side/top CRTs, cold PMT and pixels. In the summer of 2023, STEEL collected 22 continuous days of ...

This 3-D image shows a cosmic-ray muon producing a large shower of energy as it passes through the NOvA far detector in Minnesota. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...