"The Muon: 1970" In 1970, Hall, Lind, and Ristenen (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder) published a paper in the American Journal of Physics (AJP, vol. 38, No. 10) on â**A Simplified Muon Lifetime Experiment for the Instructional Laboratory.â** Basically, it articulates precisely the experiment at the heart of a similar instrument at SMU. Muons are produced in cosmic â*¦ Co…