Over the past 25 years researchers have seen a persistent and growing discrepancy between the theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of an inherent property of the muon – its anomalous ...

This time, they studied the shape of the beam and discovered that cooling a muon beam decreases the space it occupies. Plus, it also enables the muons to move in a well-aligned manner.

The main difference is their mass; a muon is 200 times heavier than an electron ... which makes forming them into a single ...