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Recent advances in CMOS technology have potential to significantly increase the performance, at low-cost, of an astronomical space telescope. Arrays of sensors in space missions are typically contiguous and act as a monolithic detector. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Maggie Y. Kautz , Douglas Kelly , Heejoo Choi , Young Sik Kim , Fernando Coronado , Cameron C. Ard , Patrick Ingraham , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

Different types of ground-based detectors have been developed and deployed around the world to monitor and study CR variations. We have designed, constructed and operated a three layer small (20x20 cm2) multiwire proportional chamber MWPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-01 Abdullrahnan Maghrabi , Mohammed Al Enizy , A Aldosari , M Almuteri

Muon scattering tomography utilises muons, typically originating from cosmic rays to image the interiors of dense objects. However, due to the low flux of cosmic ray muons at sea-level and the highly complex interactions that muons display…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Li Xin Jed Lim , Ziming Qiu

Muon tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons is a promising technique for detecting and imaging heavily shielded high-Z nuclear materials such as enriched uranium. This technique could…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 K. Gnanvo , B. Benson , W. Bittner , F. Costa , L. Grasso , M. Hohlmann , J. B. Locke , S. Martoiu , H. Muller , M. Staib , A. Tarazona , J. Toledo

The use of probabilistic spintronic devices for infrared radiation detection has introduced a shift in approach to thermal imaging. The integration of probabilistic magnetic tunnel junctions with infrared plasmonic nano-antennas achieves…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-09 Utkarsh Singh , Leif Bauer , Angshuman Deka , Mohamed Mousa , Daien He , Sakshi Gupta , Bhagwati Prasad , Zubin Jacob

As part of the collaboration building a set of detectors for the new collider, our group was tasked with designing and building a large-scale cosmic ray detector, which was to complement the capabilities of the MPD (Dubna) detec-tor set.…

Cosmic-ray muons are highly penetrative charged particles that are observed at sea level with a flux of approximately one per square centimetre per minute. They interact with matter primarily through Coulomb scattering, which is exploited…

The cosmic rays data collected using a large area plastic scintillator array ISMRAN (Indian Scintillator Matrix for Reactor AntiNeutrino) are presented. The data collected serve as a useful benchmark of cosmogenic background in a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-06-03 S. P. Behera , R. Sehgal , R. Dey , P. K. Netrakanti , D. K. Mishra , V. Jha , L. M. Pant

Muography is an innovative imaging technique using naturally produced elementary particles -- atmospheric muons -- like the X-rays of medical imaging. The modification of the particles flux -- by scattering or absorption --, reflects the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-31 Theodore Avgitas , Jean Christophe Ianigro , Jacques Marteau

Imaging methods based on the absorption or scattering of atmospheric muons, collectively named under the neologism "muography", exploit the abundant natural flux of muons produced from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere. Recent years…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-18 Lorenzo Bonechi , Raffaello D'Alessandro , Andrea Giammanco

A feasibility demonstration of three-dimensional (3D) muon tomography was performed for infrastructure equivalent targets using the proposed portable muography detector. For the target, we used two sets of lead blocks placed at different…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-19 Kullapha Chaiwongkhot , Tadahiro Kin , Yuta Nagata , Tomohiro Komori , Naoya Okamoto , Hamid Basiri

LiquidO is an innovative radiation detector concept. The core idea is to exploit stochastic light confinement in a highly scattering medium to self-segment the detector volume. In this paper, we demonstrate event-by-event muon tracking in a…

Muon Tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons in matter is a promising technique for detecting heavily shielded high-Z radioactive materials (U, Pu) in cargo or vehicles. The technique uses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-26 Kondo Gnanvo , Leonard V. Grasso , Marcus Hohlmann , Judson B. Locke , Amilkar S. Quintero , Debasis Mitra

Due to the muon tomography's capability of imaging high Z materials, some potential applications have been reported on inspecting smuggled nuclear materials in customs. A compact Cosmic Ray Muons (CRM) imaging prototype, Lanzhou University…

This paper presents the development of a new technology of registration of ionizing radiation and a new type of detectors - single-cathode multiwire porous detector with neither a gaseous nor semiconductor, but a porous dielectric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 M. P. Lorikyan

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3 m.w.e., muon-induced backgrounds are expected to be one of the…

Recent advances in low-cost, portable cosmic-ray detectors have broadened citizen-science engagement in particle physics studies. Imaging applications such as muography, however, remain largely inaccessible because existing detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 Chiori Matsushita , Mihiro Nukiwa , Aoi Atobe , Yuzuka Sasaki , Manami Sawai , Rikako Kono , Seyma Esen , Martin Schwinzerl , Kazuo S. Tanaka

Cosmic-ray muon imaging provides a non-destructive inspection technique, yet achieving millimeter-resolution imaging within practical timeframes remains challenging. Here we introduce Projection-shifted MUon transMission tomogrAghy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-24 Zibo Qin , Rongfeng Zhang , Pei Yu , Cheng-en Liu , Liangwen Chen , Feng Zhang , Zaihong Yang , Qite Li , Qiang Li

Intelligent object detection, which extracts crucial information like targets categories and locations, plays a vital role in emerging technologies including autonomous driving, the Internet of Things, and next-generation mobile…

The muonic and electromagnetic components of air showers are sensitive to the mass of the primary cosmic particle. The sizes of the components can be measured with particle detectors on ground, and the electromagnetic component in addition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-07 Ewa M. Holt , Frank G. Schröder , Andreas Haungs