Muons are unstable subatomic particles that spontaneously and rapidly transform into other particles via a process known as electroweak decay. Altering the speed with which muons decay into other ...

The discovery of the muon originally confounded physicists. Today international experiments are using the previously perplexing particle to gain a new understanding of our world. At the beginning of ...

Significant event Collision data from ATLAS showing a Higgs boson decaying to a muon–antimuon pair (red tracks). (Courtesy: CERN) A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened ...

Pierre Auger Observatory scientists used cosmic-ray muon fluctuations to set the tightest-ever limit on hadronic Lorentz ...

The CMS collaboration has recently presented new results in searches for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). Also known as "sterile neutrinos", HNLs are interesting hypothetical particles that ...

When hundreds of physicists gathered on a Zoom call in late February to discuss their experiment’s results, none of them knew what they had found. Like doctors in a clinical trial, the researchers at ...

The muon—the short-lived cousin of the electron—could be the key to understanding relationships between other fundamental particles. And it holds a mystery all its own. In the 1930s, scientists ...

Unless you’re involved in the study of particle physics or a similar field, there’s a good chance you might never have heard of a muon. Similar to electrons, but around 200 times heavier, muons ...

In the world of particle physics, you are never alone — quite literally. Every moment there is an invisible rainstorm of subatomic particles falling down on us from space. Unlike the kind of matter we ...

Physicists in Japan say they have a solution to a problem that has puzzled particle physicists for nearly two decades – the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Measurements made over several years ...