Welcome to Muon.com
An elementary particle, a lifetime of teaching, and the physics and systems thinking behind both.
- A cosmic ray hits the upper atmosphere
- A pion decays into a muon
- Time dilation carries the muon to the ground
- It decays into an electron and two neutrinos
μ− → e− + νμ + ν̄e
At sea level, roughly one cosmic-ray muon passes through each square centimeter of a horizontal surface every minute.
What is a muon?Physics
What is a “muon”?
An electron’s heavier cousin, and one of the open questions in particle physics.
About
Who am I?
Physicist, space-systems engineer, and teacher. A short introduction.
Teaching
UCLA Extension Courses
Earth remote sensing, Perl and CGI programming, and model-based systems engineering.
Teaching
UCLA MSOL System Architecture
ENGR 203 in UCLA’s Master of Science in Engineering Online program.