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Half a century after the surprising result of the experiments done in Rome by Conversi and myself [1,2] at the Lyceum Virgilio and later on with Pancini [3,4] at the University of Rome, it is perhaps interesting, and maybe useful, to identify the ingredients that brought about the discovery of the muon and of the leptonic property.
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Piccioni, O. (1996). The Discovery of the Muon. In: Newman, H.B., Ypsilantis, T. (eds) History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 352. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1147-8_10
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