Researchers have developed a muon-based approach to non-destructive investigations for unique asteroid samples, report scientists. Japanese researchers from Osaka University have developed a ...

A new technique has taken the first images of muon particle beams. Scientists plan to use it to assess the quality of these beams, which are being used more and more in advanced imaging applications.

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment has achieved its goal of squeezing a beam of muons before they decay. Scientists have announced a breakthrough that could be key to the creation of a powerful ...

Due to government shutdown restrictions currently in place in the US, the researchers who headed up this study have not been able to comment on their work Laser plasma acceleration (LPA) may be used ...

The US physics community dreams of building a muon collider. In the spring of 2022, Karri DiPetrillo was gearing up for the final step of the Snowmass particle physics community planning process. It ...

A new technique has taken the first images of muon particle beams. Nagoya University scientists designed the imaging technique with colleagues in Osaka University and KEK, Japan and describe it in the ...

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future ...

Muons, heavy relatives of electrons, offer a powerful route to non-destructive elemental analysis by harnessing their unique interaction with matter. When a negative muon is implanted into a sample, ...

The fact that we are here at all is one of the greatest puzzles of physics. We are made from normal particles such as electrons, but every such particle also has an antimatter companion that is ...

Muon has much higher transmissivity than electrons and X-rays. This feature of muon has enabled us to see through volcanoes, pyramids, and nuclear reactors with cosmic-ray induced natural muons. The ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Paul Kyberd, Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics ...