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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…

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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

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

Accurate Time-of-Flight (TOF) measurement with sub-100 picosecond resolution is a critical requirement for particle identification in future high-energy physics experiments, such as the Belle II $K_{L}$ and Muon (KLM) detector upgrade.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-14 Ziyi Yang , Xiyang Wang , Shiming Zou , Ting Wang , Kairui Huang , Wanyi Zhuang , Yicheng Pu , Xiaolong Wang

Muography (or muon radiography) is an imaging technique that relies on the use of cosmogenic muons as a free and safe radiation source. It can be applied in various fields such as archaeology, civil engineering, geology, nuclear reactor…

AMIGA (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array) is an upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory to complement the study of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) by measuring the muon content of extensive air showers (EAS). It consists of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , A. Aab , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , J. M. Albury , I. Allekotte , A. Almela , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Alves Batista , G. A. Anastasi , L. Anchordoqui , B. Andrada , S. Andringa , C. Aramo , P. R. Araújo Ferreira , H. Asorey , P. Assis , G. Avila , A. M. Badescu , A. Bakalova , A. Balaceanu , F. Barbato , R. J. Barreira Luz , K. H. Becker , J. A. Bellido , C. Berat , M. E. Bertaina , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , T. Bister , J. Biteau , J. Blazek , C. Bleve , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , L. Bonneau Arbeletche , N. Borodai , A. M. Botti , J. Brack , T. Bretz , F. L. Briechle , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , S. Buitink , M. Buscemi , K. S. Caballero-Mora , L. Caccianiga , F. Canfora , I. Caracas , J. M. Carceller , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , F. Catalani , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , M. Cerda , J. A. Chinellato , K. Choi , J. Chudoba , L. Chytka , R. W. Clay , A. C. Cobos Cerutti , R. 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Watson , M. Weber , A. Weindl , L. Wiencke , H. Wilczyński , T. Winchen , M. Wirtz , D. Wittkowski , B. Wundheiler , A. Yushkov , O. Zapparrata , E. Zas , D. Zavrtanik , M. Zavrtanik , L. Zehrer , A. Zepeda

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…

For neutrino physics and rare event searches, background related to cosmic muons poses a notable challenge, and must be identified and rejected. It is also a challenge to control the cost with good performance for a large array of cosmic…

Cosmic-ray muons which impinge upon the Earth's surface can be used to image the density of geological and man-made materials located above a muon detector. The detectors used for these measurements must be capable of determining the muon…

For a long time, the cloud chamber was the only educational tool available for measuring radiation. In recent years, simple radiation detectors combining scintillators with silicon photomultipliers have become increasingly common for these…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-12 Yuzuka Sasaki , Yuuki Wada , Kazuo S. Tanaka

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-16 Yu Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu , Zhongtao Shen , Changqing Feng , Jianguo Liu , Yulin Liu

Organic scintillators using a solid polyurethane (PU) matrix have been introduced to combine the robustness of a construction material with scintillating properties that allow gamma rays and fast neutrons to be detected efficiently and at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-27 Olga Maiatska , Torsten Dünnebacke , Martin Kreuels , Guntram Pausch , Falko Scherwinski , Jürgen R. Stein

We report the first clear observation of neutron/gamma-ray pulse-shape sensitivity of a fully-instrumented 8 $\times$ 8 array of plastic scintillator segments coupled to two 5 cm $\times$ 5 cm 64-channel SiPM arrays as part of a study of…

A new and simple technique has been developed using plastic scintillator detectors for gamma ray and cosmic ray spectroscopy without single channel analyzer (SCA) or multichannel analyzer (MCA). In these experiments only a leading edge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-13 Akhilesh P. Nandan , Sharmili Rudra , Himangshu Neog , S. Biswas , S. Mahapatra , B. Mohanty , P. K. Samal

We report on the construction and upgrade of a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cosmic Muons Detector. We modify the electronics and mechanics to achieve a highly efficient gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detector. Each detector module uses a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-25 Abdel G. Bachri , Perry C. Grant , Azriel Goldschmidt

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

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a good alternative to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) because their gain and quantum efficiency are comparable to PMTs. However, the largest single-chip SiPM is still less than 1~cm$^2$. In order to use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-17 Felix Liang , Hartmut Brands , Les Hoy , Jeff Preston , Jason Smith

For a long time, scintillator detectors have suffered from relatively weak spatial resolution due to various influencing factors. Additionally, the high cost of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) has limited the widespread adoption of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 S. K. Lv , C. S. Dai , D. D. Hu , T. C. Zhong , W. F. Wu , X. J. Wang

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are considered as a solid-state sensor alternative to photomultiplier tubes in experiments using liquid xenon (LXe) as a radiation detection medium. The main requirements are single-photon detection of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 Laura Baudis , Michelle Galloway , Alexander Kish , Chris Marentini , Julien Wulf

The use of conventional imaging techniques becomes problematic when faced with challenging logistics and confined environments. In particular, such scenarios are not unusual in the field of archaeological and mining explorations as well as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-03 S. Basnet , E. Cortina Gil , P. Demin , R. M. I. D. Gamage , A. Giammanco , R. Karnam , M. Moussawi , A. Samalan , M. Tytgat