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Cosmic rays are particles traveling through space with high energies.

Energy events as high as have been recorded.

When these particles collide with nucleons in the Earth's atmosphere, a shower of particles is generated, including pions.

More than half of the cosmic radiation observed from the Earth's surface consists of muons.

The particle called a muon is a lepton which is produced in the upper atmosphere by the decay of a pion.