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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUON»
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1
Muon Science: Muons in Physics, Chemistry and Materials
Assuming no prior expertise in muon science, the book guides readers from introductory material to the latest developments in the field.
S.L Lee, R Cywinski, S.H Kilcoyne, 1999
2
Introductory
Muon Science
This book describes the various applications of muons across the spectrum of the sciences and engineering.
3
Muon and Muonium Chemistry
This book covers all aspects of the chemical behaviour of the muon - a rare, short-lived, elementary particle having a mass intermediate between that of the proton and the electron.
4
A Precise Measurement of
Muon Lifetime at Brookhaven ...
By comparing taumu+ from this study with tau0 measured at rest (tau0 - tau/gamma)/tau0 = (12.4 +/- 9.3) x 10-5, the Einstein time dilation factor agrees with experiment at 95% confidence range of (-6.2 to 31.0) x 10-5 for gamma = 29.314 ...
5
A Measurement of
Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS ...
MINOS is a long-baseline two-detector neutrino oscillation experiment that uses a high intensity muon neutrino beam to investigate the phenomena of neutrino oscillations.
6
A Measurement of the Rate of
Muon Capture in Hydrogen Gas ...
This dissertation describes a measurement of the rate of nuclear muon capture by the proton, performed by the MuCap Collaboration using a new technique based on a time projection chamber operating in ultraclean, deuterium-depleted hydrogen ...
7
A Measurement of the Mean Life of the Positive
Muon to a ...
The mean life of the positive muon has been measured to a precision of 11 ppm using a low-energy, pulsed muon beam stopped in a ferromagnetic target, which was surrounded by a scintillator detector array.
Daniel Brian Chitwood, 2007
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First Measurement of Top Quark Pair Production Cross-section ...
Assuming a top quark pair production cross-section of 6.77 pb for Monte Carlo signal top events without a real tau, the measured sigma x BR is s&parl0;tt&d1; &parr0;xBR&parl0;tt&d1;→m +t+2n+2b&parr0;=0.18+0.13-0.11 &parl0;stat&parr0;+0.09 ...
Suharyo Sumowidagdo, 2008
9
Observation of Disappearance of
Muon Neutrinos in the NuMI Beam
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a two detector long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to study the disappearance of muon neutrinos.
10
The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the
Muon
It seems to be a strange enterprise to attempt write a physics book about a single number.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUON»
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muon is used in the context of the following news items.
Underground plans
When a neutrino interacts with a molecule, it releases a charged lepton (a muon, electron, tau or one of their antiparticles) along with a neutron. «Symmetry magazine, Jul 15»
ExtremeTech explains: What is the Large Hadron Collider?
The CMS, or Compact Muon Solenoid, is an attempt to achieve the same thing as ATLAS, but by different means. Also a “general purpose” ... «ExtremeTech, Jul 15»
Heavy metal upgrade to detect antimatter
Just last year, as an integral part of the T2K experiment, it helped detect the last predicted oscillation from a muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Could solar flares be triggering birth defects?
We would like to put some synthetic DNA in a muon beam and actually measure the effect." Related: Discuss this article in our forum «Science a Gogo, Jul 15»
Social News 20/7
The district now has seven active aquaculture cooperatives and 218 fish cages in communes of Chieng Bang, Muon Giang, and Chieng On. «VietNamNet Bridge, Jul 15»
UK artist to publish coloring book for adults in Vietnam
... House has released the first coloring book for adults entitled “Vuong quoc muon loai” (Animal Kingdom) by UK author/artist Millie Marotta. «VietNamNet Bridge, Jul 15»
Awards & Honors
Bill Gary, a professor of physics and astronomy, has been selected to be the Publications Committee Chair of the Compact Muon Solenoid ... «UCR Today, Jul 15»
Cosmic rays create Higgs boson particles high in atmosphere
That infrequency—along with other reasons that involve how the particle would have to decay into still another particle called a muon—makes ... «Science /AAAS, Jul 15»
Scientists find pentaquarks
Technicians are seen working in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during a media visit ... «Niagara Falls Review, Jul 15»
This Day in Jewish History / The scientist who invented the term 'God …
... the Nobel Prize with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger for the work they did together in 1962, discovering the mu meson, or muon, a type ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
