Portable Muon-Making Machine

[william]

MSN

"DARPA imagines using Muons to do things like scanning buildings “to characterize internal structures and detect the presence of threat materials such as special nuclear materials.
Other potential applications include rapidly mapping the location of underground tunnels and chambers hundreds of meters below the Earth’s surface,” the Agency asserts.

 

[Friendly Engineer]

There will be severe engineering and technical challenges raised by this. Let's hope they can overcome it.

 

[Friendly Engineer]

Perhaps DARPA may contribute to solving another physics problem.
One can hope. (as muons can be used to measure the charge radius) However there is a relatively large uncertainty between various measurements, suggesting that there could be an entire field of physics we are yet to discover. The charge radius is basically how big a particle is.