muon
An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater.
Synonyms
- negative muon
Related words
- antimuon
- dimuon
- muonium
- muonless
- muononium
- smuon
- trimuon
- anti-muon
- muogenic
- muon neutrino
- muonic
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “muon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.