Portal:Radiation astronomy/Resource/15

From Wikiversity
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Muons[edit | edit source]

This is an image obtained from muon radiography of Japan's Asama volcano. Credit: H T M Tanaka.

"TeV muons from γ ray primaries ... are rare because they are only produced by higher energy γ rays whose flux is suppressed by the decreasing flux at the source and by absorption on interstellar light."[1]

Muon decay produces three particles, an electron plus two neutrinos of different types.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Francis Halzen, Todor Stanev, Gaurang B. Yodh (April 1, 1997). "γ ray astronomy with muons". Physical Review D Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 55 (7): 4475-9. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.55.4475. http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v55/i7/p4475_1. Retrieved 2013-01-18.