Theorists Reveal Path to True Muonium (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Theorists Reveal Path to True Muonium

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In this artist's depiction of how experimentalists could create true muonium, an electron (blue) and a positron (red) collide, producing a virtual photon (green) and then a muonium atom, made of a muon (small yellow) and an anti-muon (small purple). The muonium atom then decays back into a virtual photon and then a positron and an electron. Overlaying this process is a figure indicating the structure of the muonium atom: one muon (large yellow) and one anti-muon (large purple).

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Graphic: Terry Anderson/SLAC

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