Muon Detector for Underground Tomography

Yan Benhammou; Erez Etzion; Gilad Mizrachi; Meny Raviv Moshe; Yiftah Silver; Igor Zolkin

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167412

Muon Detector for Underground Tomography

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-09-28 v1

Authors: Yan Benhammou , Erez Etzion , Gilad Mizrachi , Meny Raviv Moshe , Yiftah Silver , Igor Zolkin

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Abstract

We utilise muons from cosmic ray to explore hidden underground archaeological structures. Presented here is the design, simulation studies and first laboratory results of a compact, scintillators based, cosmic ray muon telescope for underground muon radiography.

Keywords

atmospheric muon physics muon physics

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@article{arxiv.2205.03722,
  title  = {Muon Detector for Underground Tomography},
  author = {Yan Benhammou and Erez Etzion and Gilad Mizrachi and Meny Raviv Moshe and Yiftah Silver and Igor Zolkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.03722},
  year   = {2022}
}

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