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Philosophically ... considered, what? Muons are leptons in the standard model. The ars article summarizes <https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(23)010
by raattgift 3y ago
Philosophically ... considered, what? Muons are leptons in the standard model.
The ars article summarizes <https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(23)01077-5.pdf https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(23)01077-5.pdf>. See figure 4, which shows a photo of two scintillators (1m x 1m x 0.02m Eijen EJ-200 plastic scintillators <https://eljentechnology.com/products/plastic-scintillators/ej-200-ej-204-ej-208-ej-212 https://eljentechnology.com/products/plastic-scintillators/e...>) and a green ray representing a single muon passing through both.
> it is not the same muon
The green ray is not wrong because of multiple muons, but because of mutiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) within the scintillators. There is a brief overview of MCS in a muon tomography context starting at the top of the second column on the first page of <https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04947 https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04947>. Figures 1 and 2 therein show the trajectory of a single muon experiencing MCS within a plastic scintillator.