Muons: Super Electrons?

Join us on a journey to explore the subatomic world and learn about muons.

Muons are subatomic particles - heavier and more energetic versions of electrons.

Given the unique properties of muons, such as their ability to penetrate deeper into matter than electrons, what potential applications do you think muons could have in various fields of science and technology?

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[nzqarc]

if muons are super electrons, are taus hyper electrons?

[whirledpeas]

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[realjohnmonarch]

Cloud chambers are so cool. Would love to build one and bring it up to high altitude in a plane to see the difference from the ground.

[orhanakalp]

Muons are important and needs to be studied more detailed

[silaskuira]

If muons decay in a blink of an eye, how do they travel from the sun which is 8 light minutes away? Or are they formed by collisions in the upper atmosphere?

[derekchapman]

You didn't mention muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion

[howaboutataste]

Since muons have electric charge, does the earth have muon lightning phenomena?

[krumplethemal]

Question:
Is it possible that the muon is just an electron with a poor boson "shape"?
Humor me for a moment.
Let's just imagine that an electron is spherical and the higgs field is water. The electron gains it's mass as it moves through this field and being spherical it can fairly easy.
Now imagine this same scenario but instead of the sphere the electron was square, it's resistance through water vs the sphere shape would both hinder it more and thus give the appearance in the higgs field a greater mass.
Now I know these particles don't take on these characteristics, what I'm trying to ask, is the muon just an electron that (for some reason) is impacted greater by the higgs field giving the impression that it's 207 times more massive?

[briankleinschmidt]

Muons decay quickly, but if they are traveling at the speed of light, "quickly" does not exist. But, they are subatomic particles, so they are not subject to space and time, anyway. Hmm.

[JasonSamuel-fv]

So basically it's electricity but more enhanced?

[sk]

"2.2 microseconds, thats less than the blink of an eye!" Umm yeah. 😂 Almost 50, 000x less than the time it takes to blink your eye.

[silaskuira]

If muon is 207 times mass of the electron and we know the proton is 1863 times mass of electron then muon is 9 times the mass of the proton. Hierarchies?

[krzysztofciuba]

your 2.2 muon's lifetime is only an average value of...not a "muon" but a quanta-muon-field and I hear the 1st time one can detect such "quanta" from the Sun that can be explained ONLY by the muon wave-field and not by a "point-particle" at all!

[zack_]

Likely, muon, electron, quack ., . these so-called fundamental particles may turn out to be not fundamental but dividable, for ever !