Assertion: muon | /r/HasProperty | heavy version of the electron
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The muon is a heavy version of the electron.
text: By using cloud chambers and detectors, new types of short-lived particles and antiparticles were discovered: Muon: Heavy electron,a negatively charged particle with rest mass two hundred times the mass of the electron.
text: The muon may be viewed essentially as a heavy electron.
text: A few years later, a team of scientists at Brookhaven Laboratory used a beam of protons to create a shower of particles that also undergo a sort of “beta decay,” except they decay mostly into muons (heavy cousins of electrons) and neutrinos.
text: Often the muon is considered simply as a “heavy electron”; then who needs it!?
text: The muons and taus are the heavy cousins of the electrons, and they each have associated neutrinos.
text: The muon is a heavy version of the electron.
text: The muon is a heavy version of the electron that can be produced in particle interactions.