Meanings
plural mu-mesons · alternative mu meson
- datedA muon (kind of subatomic particle).
One instance of an unexpected result is the mu meson and its neutrino, which was not guessed by anybody at all before it was discovered, and even today nobody yet has any method of guessing by which this would be a natural result.
1965, Richard Phillips Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, M.I.T. Press, page 157
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino
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Origin
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