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Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders closer to reality

Scientists corralled the subatomic particles into a beam before accelerating them

Curving lines radiate from the center of this image, showing tracks of particles.

A simulation shows tracks of particles produced in a muon collider, a proposed new type of particle smasher that scientists hope could reveal new physics secrets.

D. Lucchesi et al, CERN

By Emily Conover

Muons are getting a move on. 

In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists cooled and then accelerated a beam of muons.