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An intense superthermal muonium beam

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Nature Physics, Published online: 14 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03435-9

Conventional sources of muonium — a bound state of a positively charged muon and an electron — produce diffuse thermal beams. Now an intense, superthermal muonium beam with a velocity distribution far narrower than existing sources has been achieved.