Researchers at the University of Plymouth, however, explored the possibility of influencing muon decay using short laser pulses. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, suggests that the ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily ...

Unless you’re involved in the study of particle physics or a similar field, there’s a good chance you might never have heard of a muon. Similar to electrons, but around 200 times heavier, muons ...

The rate of muon decay as a function of the angle of the emitted electron, in the muon rest frame. As the laser intensity increases, so too does the order parameter, Omega. When there is no laser ...