Muons are implanted in materials. The basiaclly behave like tiny bar magents inside materials and so you are sensitive to all different types of magentism and magnetic behaviour and this is wide ranging. Where muons come into thier own is that we work in true zero-field enviorments, where we have to screen out even the Earth’s magnetic field because this will give us signals. This is pretty unqiue and not many techniques can actually do this! Muons decay in 2.2 microseconds (into a positron and neutrino in the case of positive muons) and so we can also study physical phenomena that happens on this time scale – 1 microsecond is 0.000001 seconds so quite fast – but not that fast compared to a lot of other phenomena!
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anon-185086 commented on :
Wow! So you basically have to be Flash (the superhero) yo study them! Cool!
Adam commented on :
Believe it or not, microseconds are considered quite slow on the time scale of other physical processes! But it’s still damn fast.
anon-185086 commented on :
This is super cool. Thanks for your speedy responses.
I’d love it if you win. I think you shall spend some of the money at particlezoo.com to buy soft toy particles. I didn’t even know those particles existed up to when I read your profile. The truth is, I don’t think many of the science teachers here in Peru know about them neither.
I’m voting for you and holding thumbs for you to win!