@gregeganSF @johncarlosbaez Agree, muons are minimal-ionizing-particles (doing a little ionization and don't shower up via bremsstrahlung as electrons do) and as such super detector friendly. We created cosmic muon detectors in the physisc lab at uni by anti-correlating two scintillator with a lead plates inbetween and there are school versions of that experiment even. Here I assume a large area would be useful and extracting momentum and direction are the challenging bit. Dark matter and neutrino experiments have muons as a major background, which is why e.g. #icecube built a large surface array of scintillators for vetoing them. Will check out the sources now...
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