A mysterious magnetic property of subatomic particles called muons hints that new fundamental particles may be lurking undiscovered. In a painstakingly precise experiment, muons’ gyrations within a ...

Muon is the heavier cousin (around 200 times) of the electron. It is produced when cosmic rays interact with Earth’s ...

Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

Studying the tiniest parts of the universe can sometime require very complex transportation arrangements. Just ask the folks at Fermilab. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

An international team of physicists has achieved unprecedented accuracy in computing the magnetic properties of the muon ...

An international team of physicists has achieved a breakthrough in understanding something that has puzzled scientists for ...

Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle called a muon. Muons are closely related to electrons, which ...

A University of Washington professor and hundreds of others who measured the muon's magnetism have won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize.

When hundreds of physicists gathered on a Zoom call in late February to discuss their experiment’s results, none of them knew what they had found. Like doctors in a clinical trial, the researchers at ...

Here’s how physicists calculate g-2, the value that will determine whether the muon is giving us a sign of new physics. Like racecars on a track, thousands of particles called muons zip around an ...