Muon tomography is an innovative imaging technique that utilizes cosmic ray muons—high-energy particles that penetrate materials—to create detailed images of dense objects. This method has ...

What’s a muon? The Earth is under constant bombardment from cosmic rays, most of them being nuclei expelled from supernova explosions. As they collide with nuclei in our atmosphere, pions and ...

More information: Bingyang Liu et al, Explaining Muon Excess in Cosmic Rays Using the Gluon Condensation Model, The Astrophysical Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6b9a ...

Muon radiography and tomography are innovative imaging techniques that utilize cosmic rays, specifically muons, to visualize the internal structures of various objects and geological formations.

Subatomic particles called muons could measure pressure changes in supercell thunderstorms and the twisters they kick up.

But there are still cosmic wonders we don't understand — mysteries that the discovery of a fifth force of nature may help solve. The magnificent muon and its unusual wobble In 2021, physicists ...

A muon is a particle that is 200 times heavier than an electron. The additional mass allows it to penetrate through hundreds of metres of materials including brick and concrete. Cosmic ray muons are ...

Cosmic rays can tell us about space and the universe. In the 20th century, cosmic rays helped scientists discover antimatter and the muon—the first evidence for subatomic particles beyond the proton, ...

Not only can muon detectors see inside impenetrable structures, they can also assess what’s inside them. For example, corroded metal rods stand out in front of those cosmic particle eyes and so ...

This 3-D image shows a cosmic-ray muon producing a large shower of energy as it passes through the NOvA far detector in Minnesota. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...