A Japanese research team has managed to reaccelerate muons, a type of elementary particle, after artificially cooling them, in what is the world’s first breakthrough.
The achievement is expected to help better re-examine the standard theory of physics, which governs the movements of elementary particles that make up matter, and improve the accuracy of internal inspections of giant structures, according to the team of researchers from the High Energy Accelerator Research and others Organization. and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
Muons are created in large quantities when cosmic rays collide with Earth’s atmosphere. They have properties similar to those of electrons, but have a mass about 200 times greater.
