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Muons and tau leptons are practically just heavy electrons, so they want to decay into an electron. There’s no conservation rule that disallows this decay; charge is conserved, lepton number is conserved, baryon number is conserved, etc etc.
5 lip 2021 · These are used to obtain a large sample of clean and unbiased W -boson decays to muons and τ leptons. The τ leptons are identified through their decay to muons. The τ lepton has a significant...
21 cze 2021 · They all interact with the photon and the weak gauge bosons (W and Z) in exactly the same way. In fact, only the interactions with the Higgs boson, parametrized by the so-called Yukawa couplings, distinguish an electron from a muon and from a tau lepton.
12 paź 2023 · Still, nothing could have prepared physicists for the discovery of the muon: an unstable particle with the same charge, but hundreds of times the mass, of the electron. Here’s how this surprise...
6 lis 2024 · The most common leptons are the electron, muon and their respective neutrinos. The muon is similar to the electron but is slightly heavier. The mass of an electron is about 0.0005u, whereas the mass of a muon is about 0.1u. Electrons and muons both have a charge of -1e
15 mar 2022 · The theory predicts that the different charged leptons, the electron, muon and tau, have identical electroweak interaction strengths. Previous measurements have shown that a wide range of...
leptons—the electron (e −), the muon (μ−) and the tau (τ−)—are each paired with an electrically neutral lepton, a very low mass neutrino, ν e, ν μ and ν τ, respectively. The ...
