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by cozzyd 1696 days ago
Terrible name. A muon is a lepton, not a meson.

If it were a lighter replacement of electron, muon would be an appropriate (if counterintuitive) name.

There are so many mesons (pion, kaon, \eta, \rho, J/\psi, D, B, \omega,\upsilon), why not pick one of those?