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This work reports numerical simulations and statistical tests carried out to study the performance of a prototype imaging setup to be developed for material discrimination using Muon Scattering Tomography (MST). The reconstructed images…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Sridhar Tripathy , Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Muon Tomography (MT) based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons traversing shipping containers is a promising candidate for identifying threatening high-Z materials. Since position-sensitive detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-25 Marcus Hohlmann , Patrick Ford , Kondo Gnanvo , Jennifer Helsby , David Pena , Richard Hoch , Debasis Mitra

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

Muon tomography is a non-destructive imaging technique that uses cosmic-ray muons to probe dense materials. Bar scintillator and scintillating fiber detectors equipped with one-dimensional SiPM arrays offer compact, high-resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-06 Chenghan Lv , Kun Hu , Huiling Li , Hui Liang , Cong Liu , Hongbo Wang , Zibing Wu , Weiwei Xu

Current radiation portal monitors at sea ports and international borders that employ standard radiation detection techniques are not very sensitive to nuclear contraband that is well shielded to absorb emanating radiation. Muon Tomography…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 M. Hohlmann , K. Gnanvo , L. Grasso , J. B. Locke , A. Quintero , D. Mitra

Muon tomography is a relatively new method of radiography that utilizes muons from cosmic rays and their multiple Coulomb scattering property to distinguish materials. Researchers around the world have been developing various detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-20 Weihe Zeng , Xingyu Pan , Zhi Zeng , Hao Ma , Ming Zeng , Jianping Cheng

Muon scattering tomography (MST) is a non-destructive technique to image various materials by utilizing cosmic ray muons as probes. A typical MST system with a two-fold track detectors is particularly effective in detecting high-$Z$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-22 Jiahui Chen , Huiling Li , Yiyue Li , Pingcheng Liu

A cosmic ray hodoscope with two-dimensional spacial sensitivity and good time resolution has been developed. The system is designed to use the cosmic muons as probes to test the performances of charged particle sensitive detectors. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-28 Chengguang Zhu

The past several decades have seen significant advancement in applications using cosmic-ray muons for tomography scanning of unknown objects. One of the most promising developments is the application of this technique in border security for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-05 Z. Zaher , H. Lay , T. Dorigo , A. Giammanco , V. Gulik , C. Hrytsiuk , V. A. Kudryavtsev , M. Lagrange , T. Metspalu , G. C. Strong , C. Turkoglu , P. Vischia

X-ray computed tomography (CT) has an indispensable role in constructing 3D images of objects made from light materials. However, limited by absorption coefficients, X-rays cannot deeply penetrate materials such as copper and lead. Here we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-29 Burkhant Suerfu , Christopher G. Tully

Due to the high penetrating power of cosmic ray muons, they can be used to probe very thick and dense objects. As charged particles, they can be tracked by ionization detectors, determining the position and direction of the muons. With…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Jesus J. Valencia , Adam A. Hecht , C. L. Morris , E. Guardincerri , D. Poulson , J. Bacon , J. M. Durham

Cosmic-ray muons, owing to their high penetration power and abundance, have been widely employed as a natural probe in experimental particle physics. We developed a meter-scale cosmic-ray muon telescope, consisting of two parallel…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-07 Yan Niu , Anqing Wang , Xiangxiang Ren , Dong Liu , Meng Wang

In the last years, optical readout of Micromegas gaseous detectors has been achieved by implementing a Micromegas detector on a glass anode coupled to a CMOS camera. Effective X-ray radiography was demonstrated using integrated imaging…

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

A semiconductor tracker for muon scattering tomography is presented. The tracker contains silicon strip sensors with an $80\,\mu$m pitch, precision mechanics and integrated cooling. The electronic readout of the sensors is performed by a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-30 F. Keizer , A. Gorbatch , M. A. Parker , C. Steer , S. A. Wotton

We report the calibration of a gaseous Time Projection Chamber based on Micromegas charge readout modules with cosmic ray muons, utilizing their penetrating power and relatively uniform energy deposition per unit length. Muon events were…

We report the timing and spatial resolution from the Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) installed in the STAR experiment at RHIC. Cosmic ray muons traversing the STAR detector have an average transverse momentum of 6 GeV/c. Due to their very…

The paper[1] presented a novel muon radiography technique which exploits the multiple Coulomb scattering of these particles for nondestructive inspection without the use of artificial radiation. In this paper, a new kind algorithm named…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-15 Liu Cheng-Ming , Wen Qun-Gang , Zhang Zhi-Yong , Huang Guang-Shun

Cosmic ray muon tomography is considered a promising method for the non-invasive inspection of shipping containers and trucks. It utilizes highly penetrating cosmic-ray muons and their interactions with various materials to generate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

In cultural heritage conservation, it is increasingly common to rely on non-destructive imaging methods based on the absorption or scattering of photons ($X$ or $\gamma$ rays) or neutrons. However, physical and practical issues limit these…