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The muon experiment. Reidar Hahn/Fermilab Themis Bowcock, University of Liverpool and Mark Lancaster, University of Manchester 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 orbit every atom and form the building blocks of matter. …
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