How to Use muon in a Sentence

muon

noun
  • 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
  • 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, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The muon is the heavier cousin to the electron that orbits an atom's center.
    — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Every minute, tens of thousands of muons pass through each square meter of Earth.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The faster the muon or electron, the heavier the W boson that produced it.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Travelling at close to the speed of light, muons shower Earth from all angles.
    — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 28 May 2018
  • Another idea is to collide muons, which are much heavier cousins to electrons.
    — Chandrashekhar Joshi, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • These are photographic films which capture the tracks of muons passing through them.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The endless muon rainstorm will shower the volcano at an angle.
    — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Both sets of results involve the strange, fleeting particle called the muon.
    — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2021
  • When muons hit solid objects like bricks, their paths are slightly diverted.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The idea was that the presence of a neutron would alter how electrons and muons perceive the proton’s charge.
    — ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The electron, muon and tau flavors would all be observable, at least in principle.
    — William Charles Louis, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
  • This term describes how strongly a muon interacts with a magnetic field.
    — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • There are three kinds—the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino.
    — Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India, 27 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
  • For example, the electron and positron differ only in charge, and the electron and the muon differ only in mass.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The team then identified and got rid of any cases in which electrons or muons were also present, since these could generate photons.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2017
  • By using detectors, scientists can count the number of muons passing through the pyramid.
    — Cassandra Santiago and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 2 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • The facility will produce a lot of tau particles and charm quarks, partly to study whether taus ever shape-shift into muons or electrons.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In other words, the researchers have been mapping the amount of muons traveling from space and through the pyramid from different directions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2020
  • The muon was one of the first unstable particles known, with its discovery dating back to 1936.
    — Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • One such speculative option is to smash muons, electrons’ heavier cousins, which have never been collided before.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Even more rarely, a muon neutrino morphs into an electron neutrino on the journey to Super-K.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
  • After a supernova, everything on Earth would have been exposed to 20 times the normal muon load.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2018

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