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Article: Marvelous mystery cosmic radiation.
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- Science News
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- April 11, 1987
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Marvelous mystery cosmic radiation
Over the decades, accelerator laboratoriesand cosmic radiation have tended to alternate as arenas in which new high-energy particle physics phenomena have been discovered. Right now, after a long stretch of time in which particle physics news usually came from accelerators, the cosmic rays are coming up with unusual effects. One of the most spectacular and controversial of these are what Gaurang Yodh of the University of Maryland in College Park calls "Marvin's marvelous muons.' Now Yodh is adding a few unusual muons of his own.
Marvin is Marvin Marshak of the Universityof Minnesota in Minneapolis, and the muons are ...