The latter get their names from their association with muons and tau particles, which are sort of like heavy electrons.

Also present in cosmic ray showers are mu-mesons (or muons), a "heavy electron".

The vacancies in turn introduced slow or heavy electrons and at high enough vacancy concentration, holes were also introduced.

As a lepton, the muon seems to have no internal structure, but instead behaves essentially as a heavy electron.

Tau leptons can be thought of as very heavy electrons, as they are both leptons.

Because the heavy electron current in such tubes damaged the dynode surface rapidly, their lifetime tended to be very short compared to conventional tubes.

Muons can be thought of as either heavy electrons or light protons, depending on whether one is a nuclear physicist or a condensed matter physicist.

On the other hand, the muon, essentially a heavy electron, can decay into the electron plus two quanta of energy, and hence it is not stable.

Electrons are one type of fermion, and when they are found in such materials they are sometimes referred to as heavy electrons.

The mobilities, concentrations of the light and heavy electrons, or holes, and their influence on the electrical characteristics of mercury telluride could be quantitatively evaluated.

Scaling in the Emergent Behavior of Heavy Electron Materials, (with N. Curro, B-L.

One telltale signature of the Higgs and other subatomic cataclysms is a negatively charged particle known as a muon, a sort of heavy electron that comes flying out at nearly the speed of light.

The appearance of the parabolas for light and heavy electrons and holes is animated and the student is directed to think about the origin of the energy scale for electrons and holes.

Among them are muons, negatively charged particles similar to electrons in all respects but for the fact that they are unstable and are 207 times heavier; they are in effect 'heavy electrons' and can replace electrons in atoms to make 'muonic atoms'.

The eventual recognition of the "mu meson" muon as a simple "heavy electron" with no role at all in the nuclear interaction, seemed so incongruous and surprising at the time, that Nobel laureate I. I. Rabi famously quipped, "Who ordered that?"