muon

• If you've flown 500,000 miles, you will have aged 1100 nanoseconds less than Earthbound observers Other evidence for special relativity comes from the subatomic particle called the muon, a particle that lives for just 2.2 microseconds. —  FSF - April2006
• This collision, said D0 spokesperson Paul Grannis, was essentially like CDF's Halloween Event, but the electron and muon were even more energetic. —  Omni: January 1994
• The question is: Why isn't it zero Just How Improbable Is our Universe The “Standard Model” of particle physics works pretty well at describing what makes up matter—of the non-dark variety (six flavors of quark [up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom] and six leptons [electron, tau, muon, and their corresponding neutrinos], and the force mediating particles [photons, W and Z bosons, gluons]). —  AnalogSFF,July-August2008
• This is badly broken in the charged lepton sector, so one can write explicitly what the Lagrangian is, and the neutrino Majorana matrix respects the muon-tauon interchange, whereas the charged matrix does not. —  A Quantum Diaries Survivor
• Also, the mystery of multi-muon production that was recently reported at Fermilab could be tackled with a gamma-gamma collider. —  New Scientist - Online News

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