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Muon Scattering Tomography (MST) is a promising non-invasive inspection technique, yet the practical application of short-time MST is hindered by poor image quality due to limited muon flux. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Haochen Wang , Pei Yu , Liangwen Chen , Weibo He , Yu Zhang , Yuhong Yu , Xueheng Zhang , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun

Muon scattering tomography is a non-destructive technique used to image different materials by utilizing natural cosmic ray muons. Typically it requires position-sensitive detectors with a sub-millimeter resolution to effectively…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-19 Binghao Sun , Huiling Li , Quanyin Li , Hui Liang , Cong Liu , Hongbo Wang , Zibing Wu , Suyu Xiao , Weiwei Xu

Cosmic ray muon tomography is a novel technology to detect high-Z material. A prototype of TUMUTY with 73.6 cm x 73.6 cm large scale position sensitive MRPC detectors has been developed and is introduced in this paper. Three test kits have…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 Xuewu Wang , Ming Zeng , Zhi Zeng , Yi Wang , Ziran Zhao , Xiaoguang Yue , Zhifei Luo , Hengguan Yi , Baihui Yu , Jianping Cheng

Among numerous applications of muon tomography, deployment in civil structures has caught attraction of many recently. In this work, the appropriateness of muon scattering tomography to detect defects in concrete structures has been studied…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-23 Sridhar Tripathy , Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

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

For decades, the application of muon tomography to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) cask imaging has been theoretically evaluated and experimentally verified by many research groups around the world, including Los Alamos National Laboratory in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-01 JungHyun Bae , Rose Montgomery , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Nuclear materials accountability and nonproliferation are among the critical tasks to be addressed for the advancement of nuclear energy in the United States. Monitoring spent nuclear fuel is important to continue reliable stewardship of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-12 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Cosmic-ray muon tomography is a promising technique for border security applications, leveraging highly penetrating cosmic-ray muons and their interactions with various materials to generate 3D images of large and dense objects, such as…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

Muon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The amount of multidisciplinary applications of…

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

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

In this report, we assess muon multiple scattering tomography as a non-destructive inspection technique in several typical areas of interest to the nuclear power industry, including monitoring concrete degradation, gate valve conditions,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-27 J. M. Durham , E. Guardincerri , C. L. Morris , J. Bacon , J. Fabritius , S. Fellows , K. Plaud-Ramos , D. Poulson , J. Renshaw

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

Tomographic imaging techniques using the Coulomb scattering of cosmic-ray muons have been shown previously to successfully identify and characterise low- and high-Z materials within an air matrix using a prototype scintillating-fibre…

Cosmic ray muon, as they pass through a material, undergoes Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS). The analysis of muon scattering angle in a material provides us with an opportunity to study the characteristics of material and its internal 3D…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-02 Bharat Kumar Sirasva , Satyajit Jena , Rohit Gupta

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

Muon imaging is one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for density structure scanning, specially for large objects reaching the kilometre scale. It has already interesting applications in different fields like geophysics or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-14 H. Gómez , D. Gibert , C. Goy , K. Jourde , Y. Karyotakis , S. Katsanevas , J. Marteau , M. Rosas-Carbajal , A. Tonazzo

As the multidisciplinary applications of cosmic-ray muons expand to large-scale and wide-area scenarios, the construction of cosmic-ray muon detector arrays has become a key solution to overcome the hardware limitations of individual…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-02 Yunsong Ning , Yi Yuan , Tao Yu , Hongyu Chen , Chengyan Xie , Hui Jiang , Hesheng Liu , Guihao Lu , Mingchen Sun , Yu Chen , Jian Tang

We demonstrate that muon tomography can be used to precisely measure the properties of various materials. The materials which have been considered have been extracted from an experimental blast furnace, including carbon (coke) and iron…

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