A High Spatial Resolution Muon Tomography Prototype System based on Micromegas Detector

Yu Wang; Zhiyong Zhang; Shubin Liu; Zhongtao Shen; Changqing Feng; Jianguo Liu; Yulin Liu

doi:10.1109/TNS.2021.3137415

A High Spatial Resolution Muon Tomography Prototype System based on Micromegas Detector

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-02-16 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Authors: Yu Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu , Zhongtao Shen , Changqing Feng , Jianguo Liu , Yulin Liu

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Abstract

Cosmic ray muon has strong penetrating power and no ionizing radiation hazards, which makes it an ideal probe for detecting special nuclear materials. In this paper, a high spatial resolution muon tomography system based on Micromegas detectors is proposed to optimize the imaging time and quality. The proposed system includes eight Micromegas detectors based on the thermal bonding technique and a scalable readout system. In addition, a multiplexing method based on position encoding is developed to reduce the number of electronics channels by order of magnitude. The spatial resolution of the proposed system with encoding readout can reach a value of hundred micrometers. Finally, a tomography test is performed, and test results show that this proposed system can image 2-cm objects and distinguish different materials.

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muon physics optical microscopy and spectroscopy particle detector

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@article{arxiv.2107.09841,
  title  = {A High Spatial Resolution Muon Tomography Prototype System based on Micromegas Detector},
  author = {Yu Wang and Zhiyong Zhang and Shubin Liu and Zhongtao Shen and Changqing Feng and Jianguo Liu and Yulin Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09841},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages, 17 figures, second version to IEEE TNS

A High Spatial Resolution Muon Tomography Prototype System based on Micromegas Detector

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