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Thoughts about an ideal validation environment for muography applications [PDF]
Muography has many possibilities ranging from imaging volcanoes to observing civil infrastructures, industrial targets, or even small-scale objects. G. F. Knoll has laid out the fundamentals of radiation detection and measurement of muon flux.
Holma, M. (Marko) +2 more
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The effect of shielding material density in muon tomography
In recent years, the use of high-penetrate cosmic-ray muons has been used in many applications to investigate the internal structure and composition of large material. The muon attenuation is based on multiple Coulomb scattering.
Sitti Yani +2 more
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Muon radiography is an imaging technique that relies on the transmission of cosmic muons through matter. It allows the measurement of density maps of large structures such as volcanoes. During the second half of 2013 the MURAY detector prototype it carried out a data taking the Puy de Dôme in the framework of the scientific collaboration with the ...
Noli, Pasquale +12 more
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Muography represents a recent and innovative tool for investigating the interior of active volcanoes. However, when dealing with frequently erupting open-vent volcanoes such as Stromboli, any result should take into con- sideration the structural and ...
Tioukov, Valeri +6 more
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Underground Muography with Portable Gaseous Detectors [PDF]
Muography is a novel imaging technology based on particle physics instrumentation to reveal density structure of hill-sized objects. The cosmic muon flux is attenuated while penetrating into the ground, thus the differential local flux correlates with ...
Oláh, László +7 more
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Geant4 Simulation of Muon Absorption in Concrete Layers
Muography requires a detailed understanding of the absorption of muons in the material situated between the muon source and the detector. A large-statistics (>3 billion event) Geant4 simulation was run to simulate the absorption of muons in different ...
David Joffe, Christian Perez
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Imaging the internal structure of volcanoes helps highlighting magma pathways and monitoring potential structural weaknesses. We jointly invert gravimetric and muographic data to determine the most precise image of the 3D density structure of the Puy de ...
Anne Barnoud +8 more
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Japanese volcanoes visualized with muography [PDF]
High-energy muons that are generated via the reaction between primary cosmic rays and the Earth's atmosphere can be used to map out the density distribution in shallow parts of a volcano's interior. This new subterranean imaging technique called muography has been applied to three different kinds of volcano dynamics in Japan: lava dome formation ...
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Gaseous Tracking Detectors at the Sakurajima Muography Observatory [PDF]
Muography is a novel imaging technology to reveal density structure of hill-sized objects. The cosmic muons predictably lose their energy and penetrate hundreds of meters into the ground, thus their differential local flux correlates with the crossed ...
Oláh, László +6 more
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ScanPyramids project: Overview on the Validity and Limitations of Non-destructive Techniques
In 2017, ScanPyramids project (www.scanpyramids.org) published a paper in Nature (Morishima et al., 2017) revealing the discovery of a big void (ScanPyramids Big Void BV) observed with nuclear emulsion films (Muography), it has a cross-section similar ...
Mohamed Elkarmoty +49 more
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