https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.04947/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447281urn:hackerpapers:mention:2212.04947:36447281Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:29:51 GMT<p>Philosophically ... considered, what? Muons are leptons in the standard model. The ars article summarizes &lt;https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(23)01077-5.pdf&gt;. See figure 4, which shows a photo of two scintillators (1m x 1m x 0.02m Eijen EJ-200 plastic scintillators &lt;https://eljentechnology.com/products/plastic-scintillators/e...&gt;) and a green ray representing a single muon passing through both. &gt; it is not the same muon The green ray is not wrong because of multiple muons, but because of mutiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) within the scintillators. There is a brief overview of MCS in a…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.04947/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.ins-dethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447011urn:hackerpapers:mention:2212.04947:36447011Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:07:35 GMT<p>The principle is &quot;Multiple Coulomb Scattering&quot;, and there is a nice brief overview of that in &lt;https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04947&gt; notably in fig. 1 and fig. 2. There are even more gory details at &lt;https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.06.05...&gt; (s c y h o b link to Anghel et al 2015, a Canadian muon tomography experiment interested in detecting high atomic number elements for e.g. anti-proliferation/anti-smuggling purposes).</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.04947/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.ins-det