The muon is about 207 times heavier (106 MeV/c2) and belongs to the second family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

The muon is a relatively heavy, charged elementary particle which was discovered in cosmic radiation during the 1930s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference

Thus, in the mass range up to 1.4 GeV/c2, the electron and the muon were the only charged leptons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

The subatomic traffic accident produces another particle called a muon, which leaves a trail of blue light in its wake.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Very occasionally, however, a neutrino collides into an atom, producing from the wreckage another particle-known as a muon-that.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

The group studied the material using a technique called muon spin rotation / relaxation, in which muons are implanted into the sample.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Very rarely a neutrino will strike an atom, producing another particle called a muon and a shockwave, which results in a burst of blue light - which the sensors will record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

200-times-heavier muon is a member of the second family and the almost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

The muon is the heavier cousin of the electron.    From Wordnik.com.  [CDF Ghost Muons] Reference

One belongs with the electron, the other with the muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference

This is known as pion punch-through and gives a fake muon signal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Detectors 101] Reference

What is the connection between the electron, the muon, and the tau?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin L. Perl - Banquet Speech] Reference

Sudden stratospheric warmings seen in MINOS deep underground muon data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Interpretation of a typical electron-muon trace from the SPEAR detector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference

Xin chao, Minh den tu HL, minh mong muon duoc lam quen voi tat ca cac ban.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Lovers, meet eBird] Reference

The tau ranks third among the charged leptons, after the electron and the muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

Accuracy tested against data for mass of muon and all ‘long-lived’ hadrons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference

Participated in the first exact measurement of the magnetic momentum of the muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Charpak - Curriculum Vitae] Reference

The CMS compact muon solonoid detector people had a bit of a party time yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Collisions for the LHC | Universe Today] Reference

T-violating muon polarizations, are as far as I am aware, beyond the standard model?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The BBC on the LHC] Reference

"The electron, muon, and tau heavy lepton: Are they the truly elementary particles?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

The Los Alamos data revealed a muon anti-neutrino cross over to an electron neutrino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun Shots] Reference

Indeed the tau also has its own neutrino, the tau neutrino, as do the electron and the muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

Physicists know of three types-the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino and the tau neutrino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

A total of 51 neutrino interactions were registered with a muon observed in the spark chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988] Reference

Then there are the Leptons: electron tau lepton muon electron neutrino tau neutrino muon neutrino.    From Wordnik.com.  [nessus Diary Entry] Reference

But sometimes they can “punch through” and leave hits in the muon detection system, fooling us.    From Wordnik.com.  [CDF Ghost Muons] Reference

Physicists could now start to distinguish some order among the particles: the electron (e), the muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000] Reference

And I don't need a degree in muon-catalyzed physics, aeronautics, or nuclear engineering to see that.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You may rest assured that I, and hundreds of supporters, will continue to contact you, by email, phone, and perhaps in-person requests...."] Reference

The tau lepton stood up to the test and was shown to be a heavier relative of the electron and the muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995] Reference

The best known lepton is the electron; the other five are the muon, the tau particle, and three matching neutrinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researching the glue that holds the universe together] Reference

The missing neutrinos were actually present, but in the form of the more difficult to detect muon and tau neutrinos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solving the Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos] Reference

For example, an electron neutrino interaction will produce an electron, and a muon neutrino interaction will produce a muon.    From Wordnik.com.  [MiniBooNE Neutrino Result - Guest Blog from Heather Ray] Reference

The neutrinos left Fermilab as muon neutrinos, and oscillated into either electron or tau neutrinos, or something more exotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Particle physics marches on] Reference

For example, in a two-neutrino scenario, at the time of creation the muon neutrino is a combination of the two mass eigenstates.    From Wordnik.com.  [MiniBooNE Neutrino Result - Guest Blog from Heather Ray] Reference

The previously uncounted neutrinos are changed from electron neutrinos into muon and tau neutrinos that are more difficult to detect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solving the Mystery of the Missing Neutrinos] Reference

I began my research trying to find the connection between the electron and the muon, the two charged leptons which were known before 1975.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin L. Perl - Banquet Speech] Reference