Studies of cosmic ray muons using CosmicWatch portable particledetectors

Abstract

Properties of muon
Muons are unstable subatomic elementary particles that
have a half-life of 2.2 μs. A muon has a negative electric
charge of e and a mass of 105.65 MeV, approximately
207 times as heavy as an electron. However, it is a lepton,
which means it does not take part in strong nuclear
interaction and can penetrate through materials much
better than hadrons and mesons.