Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted

Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag... by rocqua on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:33PM (#26728074)

I have indeed often seen the names referred to without the term "nuclear".

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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag... by a9h74j on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @10:19PM (#26734367)

This might be a new variant of: You can tell how old a national lab is by what they study in the "physics" division.

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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag... by goatcode on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:33PM (#26728084)

Weird. This must have changed in the past 10 years or so, since I've been out of college.

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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag... by dukwon on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:49PM (#26731053)

This (very important) paper from 1967 calls them "weak interaction" and "strong interaction": https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.19...

Putting the word "nuclear" in the middle seems to just be done in textbooks and classrooms.

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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag... by dylan604 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:39PM (#26730017)

It's something you never get used to. As you get older, this will just keep happening. We used to put commas before the last item in a list back in like the stone ages when I was in school. My SAT score looked really lame for a bit of time when those suddenly changed.

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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more mag... by goatcode on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:29PM (#26730775)

I understand the grumpy old person archetype now. I feel like I've been one for a long time, but it's really hitting home over the past decade.

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