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Cherenkov light from cosmic-ray muons is a significant source of background for the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. However, muon events are also valuable as a diagnostic tool because they produce distinctive ring images, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. B. Humensky

In this work, we describe the calibration and first measurements in the commissioning of MuTe, a hybrid Muon Telescope with two subdetectors --a scintillator hodoscope and a Water Cherenkov Detector (WCD)-- for imaging the inner structures…

Muon imaging, especially muon scattering tomography (MST), has recently garnered significant attention. MST measures the magnitude of muon scattering angles inside an object, which depends not only on the material properties but also on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-17 Pei Yu , Ziwen Pan , Jiajia Zhai , Yu Xu , Li Deng , Zhengyang He , Zhe Chen , Zechao Kang , Yuhong Yu , Xueheng Zhang , Liangwen Chen , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun

Muon imaging, a non-invasive technique that utilizes naturally occurring cosmic muons, has emerged as a promising tool for exploring underwater objects, including shipwrecks. This study investigates the potential of muon radiography to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-09 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

In both particle physics and cosmic ray muon applications, a high-resolution muon momentum measurement capability plays a significant role not only in providing valuable information on the properties of subatomic particles but also in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-25 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

We present results of horizontal EAS simulations focused on the opportunity of measuring Cherenkov light from air showers at stratospheric balloon altitude (eg. EUSO-SPB2). For a 1 m2 UV light detector at a 38 km altitude, the largest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 K. Królik , A. Djakonow , Z. Plebaniak , M. Przybylak , J. Szabelski , L. Wiencke

In both particle physics and muon applications, a high-resolution muon momentum measurement capability plays a significant role not only in providing valuable information on the properties of subatomic particles but also in improving the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-10 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Muon radiography, also known as muography, is a non-destructive geophysical technique for the study of the internal structure of large objects such as volcanoes. This is possible by constructing an image based on the differential absorption…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-14 R. Calderón-Ardila , A. Almela , M. Gómez-Berisso , A. Sedoski , C. Varela , A. Vesga-Ramírez , H. Asorey

Telescopes -- far seeing -- have since centuries revealed insights to objects at cosmic distances. Adopted for gamma-ray-astronomy, ground based Cherenkov-telescopes image the faint Cherenkov-light of air-showers induced by cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sebastian Achim Mueller

Very-high-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrinos are messengers of energetic sources in the universe. Sub-orbital and satellite-based neutrino telescopes employ detectors of the atmospheric Cherenkov emission from extensive air showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Diksha Garg , Mary Hall Reno

Muography is an imaging technique for large and dense structures as volcanoes or nuclear reactors using atmospheric muons. We applied this technique to the observation of the Puy de D\^ome, a volcano 2 km wide close to Clermont-Ferrand,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-29 Eve Le Menedeu

XENON is a dark matter direct detection project, consisting of a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with liquid xenon as detection medium. The construction of the next generation detector, XENON1T, is presently taking place at the…

Muography is a well estabilished method to obtain 3D images of large objects (e.g. volcanoes and large buildings) without any additional particle source, taking advantage of the presence of cosmic muons. The underlying principle of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 G. Galgóczi , D. Mrdja , I. Bikit , K. Bikit , J. Slivka , J. Hansman , L. Oláh , G. Hamar , D. Varga

We present a hybrid Muon Telescope, MuTe, designed and built for imaging active Colombian volcanoes. The MuTe has a resolution of tens of meters, low power consumption, robustness and transportability making it suitable for use in difficult…

Muon radiography is a fast growing field in applied scientific research. In recent years, many detector technologies and imaging techniques using the Coulomb scattering and absorption properties of cosmic-ray muons have been developed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-11 F. Ambrosino , L. Bonechi , L. Cimmino , R. D'Alessandro , D. G. Ireland , R. Kaiser , D. F. Mahon , N. Mori , P. Noli , G. Saracino , C. Shearer , L. Viliani , G. Yang

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2) measured extensive air showers (EASs) from upward-going High Energy Cosmic Rays by flying a Cherenkov Telescope (CT) at 33 km altitude. The telescope could be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Duncan Fuehne , Tobias Heibges

In this work, we propose a new approach to cosmic ray muon momentum measurement using multiple pressurized gaseous Cherenkov radiators. Knowledge of cosmic ray muon momentum has the potential to significantly improve and expand the use of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-29 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

The Summit Craters system represents the point of maximum expression of the persistent tectonic activity at Mount Etna Volcano. The Muography of Etna Volcano (MEV) Project began in 2016 as a pilot project for the successive installation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 G. Gallo , D. Lo Presti , D. L. Bonanno , G. Bonanno , C. Ferlito , P. La Rocca , S. Reito , F. Riggi , G. Romeo

The European collaboration ANTARES aims to operate a large neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea, 2400 m deep, 40 km from Toulon (France). Muon neutrinos are detected through the muon produced in charged current interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain Romeyer , Juan De Dios Zornoza Gomez , Ronald Bruijn

Next-generation air-shower detectors, such as the Global Cosmic Ray Observatory (GCOS) and the Probing Extreme PeVatron Sources (PEPS) experiment, are considering water-Cherenkov detectors as a base design. A key factor in improving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Pierre Billoir , Benjamin Flaggs , Ioana C. Mariş , Andrea Parenti