[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric muons as an imaging tool

L Bonechi, R D'Alessandro, A Giammanco - Reviews in Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Imaging methods based on the absorption or scattering of atmospheric muons, collectively
named under the neologism “muography”, exploit the abundant natural flux of muons …

Muography: overview and future directions

R Kaiser - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cosmic-ray muography uses high-energy particles for imaging applications that are
produced by cosmic rays in particle showers in the Earth's atmosphere. This technology has …

[图书][B] Radiação: efeitos, riscos e benefícios

E Okuno - 2018 - books.google.com
Acidentes nucleares severos e a questão da deposição de resíduos radiativos suscitam
cada vez mais dúvidas sobre a continuidade de programas nucleares, seja para o uso …

Muography and its potential applications to mining and rock engineering

ZX Zhang, T Enqvist, M Holma, P Kuusiniemi - Rock Mechanics and Rock …, 2020 - Springer
Muography is a novel imaging method using natural cosmic-ray radiation for characterising
and monitoring variation in average material density in a diverse range of objects that …

Muon tomography for railway tunnel imaging

LF Thompson, JP Stowell, SJ Fargher, CA Steer… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Cosmic ray muon radiography utilizes highly penetrating cosmic ray muons to image the
density profile of an object of interest. Here we report on a trial to use a portable field …

The MIMA project. Design, construction and performances of a compact hodoscope for muon radiography applications in the context of archaeology and geophysical …

G Baccani, L Bonechi, D Borselli… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Muon Imaging for Mining and Archaeology (MIMA) project aims at the
development of a non-invasive technique for imaging dense structures or cavities, hidden in …

Fiber-optic laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of zirconium metal in air: Special features of the plasma produced by a long-pulse laser

A Matsumoto, H Ohba, M Toshimitsu, K Akaoka… - … Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2018 - Elsevier
The decommissioning of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant is an essential issue in nuclear R&D. Fiber-optic laser-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging a nuclear reactor using cosmic ray muons

J Perry, M Azzouz, J Bacon, K Borozdin… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The passage of muons through matter is dominated by the Coulomb interaction with
electrons and nuclei. The muon interaction with electrons leads to continuous energy loss …

Muon spin spectroscopy: magnetism, soft matter and the bridge between the two

L Nuccio, L Schulz, AJ Drew - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of implanted muons to probe the spin dynamics and electronic excitations in a
variety of magnetic and non-magnetic materials is reviewed and is split into three main …

Developing a cosmic ray muon sampling capability for muon tomography and monitoring applications

S Chatzidakis, S Chrysikopoulou… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, a cosmic ray muon sampling capability using a phenomenological model that
captures the main characteristics of the experimentally measured spectrum coupled with a …