Whether or not there was one supernova or a series of them, the supernova energy that spread layers of iron-60 all over the world also caused penetrating particles called
muons to shower Earth, causing cancers and mutations -- especially to larger animals.
Caption: The neutrino recorded on September 22, 2017, smashed into Antarctic ice, creating a
muon that left the track shown here.
Similar to X-rays, which can penetrate the body and allow bone imaging, the elementary
muon particles can keep a quasi-linear trajectory while going through hundreds of meters of stone before decaying or being absorbed, according to the study.
Muon detectors have previously been used to map out the inside of the Fukushima's nuclear reactor in Japan and it is hoped they can be used to explore other archaeological sites.
Muon particles originate from interactions between cosmic rays from space and atoms of Earth's upper atmosphere.
Now scientists have utilized a promising new technique that looks at subatomic particles known as
muons to investigate bedrock geometry.
The postulate is claimed to have been shown to be true for accelerations of ~[10.sup.16]g in a Mossbauer spectroscopy experiment by Kundig [5] and of ~[10.sup.18]g in Bailey et al's
muon experiment [2], which uses rotational motion of particles to generate the acceleration--one obtains the quoted acceleration for a particle velocity close to the speed of light.
These projects are the International Linear Collider (ILC) [52] with a center-of-mass energy of 0.5 TeV and low-energy
muon collider (a [[mu].sup.+] [[mu].sup.-] collider, shortly [micro]C) [53].
The topics include physics potential and motivations for a
muon collider, meson/baryon/tetraquark supersymmetry from superconformal algebra and light-front holography, neutrino mass ordering in future neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, searching for composite Higgs models at the Large Hadron Collider, and extensions of the Standard Model in multi-spinor field formalisms--visible and dark sectors.
Lingacom's technology is based on high-energy natural atmospheric cosmic ray
muon particles, which have the highest known penetration levels on earth and are capable of penetrating and exiting all attenuating cargo and vehicles.
He took a shot at compact
muon solenoid (CMS) which is a broadly useful identifier at the Large Hadron Collider.
Award-winning designer Ross Lovegrove has teamed up with the manufacturer to design its
Muon loudspeakers.
Muography is an emerging technique that provides information complementary to and independent from existing techniques using an elementary particle called a
muon. Thus, it has been globally applied to the study of volcanoes over the last decade.
Author
Muon Van taps into the hardworking heritage of her family, who immigrated from Vietnam to the United States when she was an infant, in this gentle and beautifully illustrated story.
Mr Fallon was at Boulby Underground Laboratory, at Boulby Mine on Teesside to see the Durham and She[euro]eld universities-led
Muon Tomography project.
