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Well, muons are made by getting electrons or other particles up to high speeds and then crashing them into stationary targets or counterrotating beams. But you
by scentoni 7y ago
Well, muons are made by getting electrons or other particles up to high speeds and then crashing them into stationary targets or counterrotating beams. But you have to create muon-antimuon pairs, so that requires at least 212 MeV in theory and much more in practice because of energy lost to heat, etc. https://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/SpecialROW032808MERIT.html https://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/SpecialROW032808MERIT.html
- ianai 7y agoPer google, you have to have a collision because of the law of conservation of momentum otherwise won’t allow for pair production. It’s an open question how we get a universe of matter out of seemingly only producing mass energy in matter/anti-matter symmetry. Sounds like a sure Nobel prize for that one, too.