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A muon is a fundamental particle similar to an electron but much heavier, carrying a negative electric charge and classified as a type of particle called a lepton. Scientists consider muons to be basic building blocks of matter that are not made up of smaller particles.
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Key facts
- Particle.name
- Muon
- Particle.image
- Moon's shadow in muons.gif
- Particle.caption
- The Moon's cosmic ray shadow, as seen in secondary muons generated by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, and detected 700 m below ground, at the Soudan 2 detector
- Particle.composition
- Elementary particle
- Particle.statistics
- Fermionic
- Particle.group
- Lepton
- Particle.generation
- Second
- Particle.interaction
- Gravity, electromagnetic, weak
- Particle.antiparticle
- Antimuon ()
- Particle.discovered
- Carl D. Anderson, Seth Neddermeyer (1936)
- Particle.decay_particle
- Electron|, Electron antineutrino|, Muon neutrino| (most common)
- Particle.electric_charge
- −1 e
- Particle.color_charge
- None
- Particle.spin
- ħ
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- elementary particle
- Followed by
- tau
- Follows
- electron
- Mass
- 0.1134289257
- Image
- Hard-component-muon-868x1024.png
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- Monte Carlo Particle Number
- 13
- interaction
- weak interaction
- spin quantum number
- 0.5
- discoverer or inventor
- Carl David Anderson
- time of discovery or invention
- 1937-00-00
- half-life
- 1.5228312
- antiparticle
- antimuon
- Commons category
- Muons
- electric charge
- -1
- magnetic moment
- -0.000000000000000000000000044904478
- mean lifetime
- 0.0000021969811
- g-factor
- -2.0023318418
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Article · 日本語
ミュー粒子（ミューりゅうし、muon, μ）とは、素粒子標準模型における第二世代の荷電レプトンである。英語名でミューオン（時にはミュオン）と表記することもある。
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