In a collaboration showing the power of innovation and teamwork, physicists and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a mobile muon detector that promises to ...

Egyptian authorities have signaled that a forthcoming announcement tied to the Great Pyramid of Giza will force a rethinking ...

Energetic particles that pop briefly into existence when cosmic rays hit Earth’s atmosphere could help assess hidden damage to buildings in Ukraine after the war ends. These particles — known as muons ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts ...

Cosmic rays (CRs) are particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. They are mostly protons (\(\approx\) 90%), but also include heavier atomic nuclei (\(\approx\) 9%), ...

In a muon tomography detector, cosmic-ray muons interact with an object and strike scintillators that emit photons. Wavelength-shifting fibers transmit the photons to photodetectors that digitize the ...