Muon tomography or muography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate two or three-dimensional images of volumes using information contained...
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A muon (/ˈm(j)uːɑːn/ M(Y)OO-on; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric...
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Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning that uses any kind of penetrating wave. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, atmospheric...
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Cargo scanning (section Muon tomography)
contained in the Coulomb scattering of the muons. Since muons are much more deeply penetrating than X-rays, muon tomography can be used to image through much thicker...
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Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka (section Muon tomography works)
volcano with cosmic muons. In 2007, he led a team of scientists to install a muon detector near the summit of a volcano. By measuring muons traveling nearly...
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techniques.[clarification needed] The team was using Infrared thermography, muon tomography, 3D simulation and reconstruction techniques. ScanPyramids is an interdisciplinary...
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Nobel Prize, shared by George Smoot and John Mather). Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search the Egyptian pyramids for unknown chambers. Using...
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dual-energy X-ray radiography, backscatter X-ray radiography, muon radiography, muon tomography, neutron activation systems, or gamma-ray radiography. Terahertz...
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environment to biological systems Deep Carbon, MuScan, Muon-Tides (3 experiments): Muon Tomography DRIFT-II (Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks):...
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satellites, the Raptor telescope suite, the Swift satellite. Muon tomography: Cosmic-ray muon tomography to detect high-Z materials. Nuclear nonproliferation:...
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operations in the money pit. 185 5 "Muon the Horizon" December 5, 2023 (2023-12-05) N/A Two years later, Muon tomography divulges a cavity known as Alladin's...
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research Metallurgy Reactive surface chemistry Radiation protection Muon tomography (Muography) Archaeology. Herz, A.J.; Lock, W.O. (May 1966). "Nuclear...
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The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source, established 1984 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology...
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year. Beginning 2004, Schwitters led the University of Texas Maya Muon Tomography research team. From 2005 to 2011, he was the chair of the JASON Defense...
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16 November 2021 Cosmic Muon Images Annotation Volunteers annotate graphs to find particle tracks as part of muon tomography experiments. 11 January 2022...
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create neutrinos in one of three leptonic flavors: electron neutrino, ν e muon neutrino, ν μ tau neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated with the correspondingly...
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studied by muon spin rotation, in which the Mu atom's spin precesses in a magnetic field applied transverse to the muon spin direction (since muons are typically...
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University of Technology and Economics, to demonstrate the use of muon tomography in geophysical surveying of underground structures. On 21 February...
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Neutron tomography is a form of computed tomography involving the production of three-dimensional images by the detection of the absorbance of neutrons...
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understanding of this process is of some importance in positron emission tomography. Approximately: ~60% of positrons will directly annihilate with an electron...
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producing pairs of gamma rays, a process exploited in positron emission tomography. The laws of nature are very nearly symmetrical with respect to particles...
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is a theoretical crisis precipitated by a 1987 experiment by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC), which tried to determine the distribution of spin within...
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Backscattering spectrometer Spin-echo spectrometer Other applications Neutron tomography Activation analysis, Prompt gamma activation analysis Fundamental research...
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(replacing an -on suffix when present), with one exception for "muonium"; a muon–antimuon bound pair is called "true muonium" to avoid confusion with old...
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Backscattering spectrometer Spin-echo spectrometer Other applications Neutron tomography Activation analysis, Prompt gamma activation analysis Fundamental research...
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Backscattering spectrometer Spin-echo spectrometer Other applications Neutron tomography Activation analysis, Prompt gamma activation analysis Fundamental research...
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Backscattering spectrometer Spin-echo spectrometer Other applications Neutron tomography Activation analysis, Prompt gamma activation analysis Fundamental research...
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when taking a digital image, such as through image plates, and neutron tomography for three-dimensional images. Neutron imaging is commonly used in the...
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diffraction Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy (NMI3) - a European consortium of 18 partner organisations from...
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positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), are detected in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners used in hospitals. PET scanners create detailed three-dimensional...
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