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Muon
A Muon is a type of particle very much like an electron. In fact, it is exactly the same as an electron – except heavier. The mass of a muon is 207 times the mass of an electron. You can remember or look up (or take our word for it) that the mass of a proton, by contrast, is about 1,800 times the mass of an electron. So a muon has all the properties of an electron, but is more similar in mass to the big clunkiness (in relative terms) of a proton or other nuclear particle.
A muon, however, is not made up of any other particles. It is not a bag of electrons or of anything else, but appears to be its own elementary or fundamental particle. It's just a heavier version of an ordinary electron. There's a good reason why the muon is such an unfamiliar particle: muons are radioactive, and they decay with a half-life of 1.52 microseconds. A muon decays into an electron and two neutrinos.
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