#muons — Public Fediverse posts
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📣 New title image 🖼️
The diagram shows results from a numerical relativistic computer simulation of merging neutron stars.
The new simulation takes into account muons and their reactions to get a physically more complete picture of what happens in these extreme cosmic events.
Researchers at @unipotsdam, at Universidade Federal do ABC in Brazil, and at @mpi_grav have recently published their results: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14225.
The diagram from that manuscript shows the muon fraction and its deviation from equilibrium at different times after merger.
The most important finding: Unlike reported in the literature so far, taking into account muons and their reactions only plays a minor role – at least in the context of calculating the synthesis of elements in neutron star mergers and their optical counterparts observable with telescopes.
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Let me share one of the pictures from todays #physics data analyis work.
It is a Dalitz plot visualizing the fractions of the signals in three photodiodes registering scintillation light excited by #cosmicrays #muons in a big Bismuth-Germanium-Oxide #BGO crystal. The colors represent different data selection criteria.
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$100 Muon Detector Lets You Harness the Cosmos
https://spectrum.ieee.org/diy-muon-tomography
#ycombinator #arduino #geiger_counter #muons #remote_sensing #tomography #type_departments -
New paper, just published in Physical Review X Energy, on the muography of the G3 nuclear reactor
by Baptiste Lefevre and co-authors
https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.4.013002The visualization software I developed for #Cosmology contributed in the mapping of the inner, inaccessible structure of the reactor.
▶️ see the video and interactive visualization here: https://journals.aps.org/prxenergy/abstract/10.1103/PRXEnergy.4.013002#supplemental
#Physics #Muography #Nuclear #NuclearReactor #science #STEM #engineering #Energy #G3 #Muons #MuonTomography #tomography
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Scientists at Fermilab are nearing the discovery of a fifth force of nature, a new type of interaction that could explain some of the mysteries of the universe. The fifth force could be related to the behaviour of muons, tiny particles similar to electrons. Muons wobble in a magnetic field in a way that does not match the predictions of the standard particle physics model, suggesting that something else is influencing them.