Search results for "Muon" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • There are three known flavors of lepton: the electron, the muon, and ... electrons and electron neutrinos, muons and muon neutrinos, tau leptons and ...
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  • electron and similar, heavier particles (muon and tau) and neutrinos. ... :: Muon ( link=yes|Muon ) :: Tau ( link=yes|Tau ) :: Electron neutrino ( ...
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  • ::Leptons—electron neutrino, electron, muon neutrino, muon, tauon ... −1: the electron and its two cousins, the muon and the tauon. ...
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  • , and the other six as leptons (electron, muon, tau, and their corresponding ... * The down-type leptons (the electron, the muon, and the tau lepton ...
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  • the masses of the leptons (electron, muon, and tau) and quarks. As the Higgs boson is massive, it must interact with itself. On July 4, 2012 the ...
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  • which binds the nucleus together. The muon was discovered in 1936, by ... ::Leptons--electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, ...
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  • Strange and Charm), and the two leptons, the muon and muon-neutrino. The third, and apparently final, generation has the B- and T-quarks (or Bottom and ...
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  • link=yes|Muon + X and 300000|u=years for Antiproton → link=yes|Electron + link=yes|Gamma ===Experimental detection in cosmic rays=== ...
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  • quot; of penetrating particles, muons. The muon was initially believed to ... in the ratio of electron neutrinos to muon neutrinos depending on the ...
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  • of matter particles. In this model the muon and the tauon correspond to the electron in the other two generations. Also in the model each fundamental ...
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  • Some other confinement principles have been investigated, such as ... *Muon-catalyzed fusion is a well-established and reproducible fusion ...
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  • The muon, when first discovered, was thought of as a meson, based on its similar mass and was named "mu meson." However, it did not ...
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  • that is, change into undetectable tau and muon neutrinos as they traveled between the Sun and the Earth. W.C. Haxton, [https://articles.adsabs ...
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  • * There are three generations of fundamental leptons (electron, muon, tauon and their neutrinos) and three groups of flavors of quarks (up-down ...
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  • proper suffix is "-on," as in proton and muon, not "-ron," as in electron and neutron, these two terms inheriting their r's ...
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