How Are Muons Created?

Muons are generated in the Earth's upper atmosphere by cosmic rays (high energy protons) colliding with atomic nuclei

of molecules in the air. ... We can form surface muon beams from pions decaying at the surface of the target. That beam is made of positive muons only, as the negative muons are captured.

How are muons created in lab?

Muons are produced at PSI in very violent collisions, involving fast protons extracted from the main particle accelerator which then collide with a rotating carbon ring target; amongst the new particles created from these collisions are muons, which can then be used for experiments.

How do you turn electrons into muons?

When you smash protons into a dense target, like tungsten, you get lots of light hadrons—among them, the charged pions. These charged pions decay into muons, which one can then collect by bending their trajectories with magnetic fields.